Re: vision2020-digest Digest V01 #250

[bainbridge@moscow.com]

Actually, it is my understanding that Jefferson was a deist - not an atheist.  
Chris
>

 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
> 846 Mabelle St.
> Moscow, ID  83843
> 
> Tel: 208 883-0642
> 


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