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Many a silly fundagelical has left a comment here showing his ignorance of early American history.

... Fundamentalist groups circulate leaflets containing stock responses to such arguments -- including quotations that, torn from context, "prove" that the separation of church and state was never a basic American value. (After all, even the least orthodox of the Founding Fathers occasionally said something nice about Jesus.) ...

... Nor were they happy when Jefferson declared, "The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." And when Thomas Paine went from writing the pamphlets that fueled the revolutionary cause of 1776 to publishing works of deist philosophy, he was practically written out of the story of the founding of the republic. ...

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Now i'm a practicing christian and a lover of politics, and i understand that your religion doesn't hurt anybody. But the founding father's never advocated a stance on making everybody become a christian. In fact they came to America so that people could have freedom of religion. However, and please don't take this as hate speech I mean this in the most honest and sincere way, homosexuality is a injurious life style. The founding father's didn't want people to voluntarily hurt themselves. That's why they came to America. Anyways thanks for your time.

Posted by: Bill | August 2, 2004 1:30 AM

Your level of historical revisionism is amazing. You carefully select a small body of evidence that seems to support your view that America's founder were just a bunch of deists who intended to establish a godless state. But you ignore a much larger body of evidence that plainly refutes that fiction. Mike Griffith

Posted by: Mike Griffith | April 23, 2005 12:38 PM

Well, I'm convinced by your masterly handling of the evidence. What a high class intellectual!

Posted by: Doctor William Frist | April 23, 2005 2:23 PM

How do you feel?

Feel free to share your feelings about America's founding fathers. Please stick to the theme of the entry. Disagreement is fine. Homophobia, racism, and kindred expressions of hatred will be deleted. This site is one of my hobbies. I genuinely enjoy hearing from people and hate moderating or killing comments. Forthright disagreement is fine as long as it is civil.
My thanks,
Richard

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