Re: vision2020-digest Digest V01 #250

[Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 07:03 PM 10/18/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Why do you think they stated " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
>all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
>certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
>pursuit of Happiness." in the Declaration of Independance?

The Declaration of Independence is among the most sacred of American 
documents.  However, it has no bearing in law, except for the fact that we 
are no longer a colony of England.

Thomas Jefferson--author of the Declaration of Independence--was widely 
held to be an atheist.  This son of the Enlightenment may have written 
those words, but I have never heard alleged that he, one of the greatest of 
our Founding Fathers, was Christian.  If this Creator he spoke of was 
(tongue in cheek) a Shinto deity, does that mean we should all convert to 
an archaic Japanese religion?

I think not.

Bob Hoffmann
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