The purpose of the Constitiution is not to protect the government from us, it is exactly the opposite. Starting a religion and calling it a government doesn't make things better. Interesting article on Deists philosophy. I never really thought about the meaning, but I like this way of thinking. I totally agree with the idea that there is no mystical supreme being looking over us as individuals on a daily basis. The problems with religion these days is its insistence on fairy tales. Seems like we are going backwards intellectually. Deism was a 17th and 18th century belief system that appears to be a hell of a lot more progressive than the nonsense we are hearing about today (ala....the end times novels.....and the twenty-seven virgins waiting up there in heaven) Kind of scary how most people in the U.S. insist on believing in the devil, and angels. I think it i... Emphasis here on *belief in human reason*. It's rationality that'll hold us together when people are freakin' out, There is a great book written by a Christian minister on this very topic. Check out "The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church" by Greg Boyd. The problems with religion these days is its insistence on fairy tales.And it's the religious that are the problem? This is just a sad display of intellect. Poorly thought out, self-refuting, and it begs the question in reverse of the claim. Wiccantexan- You are absolutly wrong it is astounding you know anything at all. If you know anything about HISTORY at all you would know that ALL of the founding fathers were bible believeing Chritians. I will give you the exception of Thomas Jefferson, because HISTORY clearly shows he was a deist. If you read the recent biography by reknowened historian David McCullough, you will clearly see the HISTORICAL fact that leaves no doubt that John Adams was a man of Christ and was well known for it. So please, before you stating facts that are not true at all, you need to do some HISTORICAL research about the subject, and not just spout some line from the Wiccan religion that has no HISTORICAL accuracy what so ever. It's adorable that you think a CLIPPED article is me stating a "line from the Wiccan religion" and untrue statements. Read the documented evidence in the article for the historical perspective. The American Revolution was one of the two critical steps in the world history, that would change the riverbed of the human civilization by reclaiming the rationality, raising the intellect, reason and common sense to the place it deserved, thus saving the world from YHVH religions' oppression. The second one was the French Revolution. (1640 English Revolution had unfortunately lost its objectives in the middle of the road by rejecting its essential elements like The Levellers, when the bougeoisy took the reigns as the ruling class and compromise with the conservative forces.) Pity for the world that the two very important movements were shaken by a surge of counter-revolution both in Europe and America in early 19th century. Pity for the world that the two very important movements were shaken byYes, pity America began it's mission to fight the materialists in all their forms. ex. slavery, communism, socialism, fascism, imperialism, and statism. What a drastic mistake this course was. Sorry Joarron: You're the one is highly inaccurate here. 1.The United States, despite the manifold references to "God" in its defining documents, never recognizes Jesus as part of the Godhead it proclaims. 2. The Founding Fathers of the United States -- despite their unanimous theism -- held a wide spectrum of religious beliefs, and the claim that they all were disciples of Jesus is a dangerous falsehood grounded in boastful mythology that arose in the early nineteenth century. 3. Even those few Founding Fathers who did profess to follow Christ, generally yielded to the Enlightenment spirit of that day and understood their faith in very private, individualized terms. Thomas Paine was a p... Of those 55 Founding Fathers, we know what their sworn public confessions were. Twenty-eight were Episcopalians, eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutheran, two were Dutch Reformed, two were Methodist, two were Roman Catholic, one is unknown, and only three were deists -- Williamson, Wilson, and Franklin. Most Deists also have personal religions they follow. The difference being, they do not believe they are the only path to Divinity. |
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