RE: A Deist wrote this?
April 22, 2012 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2012 at 12:13 pm by radorth.)
(April 22, 2012 at 5:48 am)Zen Badger Wrote: I'm not quite sure what point the OP is trying to make.
I dunno. Maybe a recent statement that a person absolutely critical to democratic reforms "is generally regarded as a deist."
It's complete nonsense, and shows that many atheists believe what they want to believe while claiming to be intellectually honest and rational.
(April 22, 2012 at 3:02 am)Voltair Wrote: IEven with the founding fathers of America, regardless of their religious beliefs or lack thereof, they still drafted up a constitution which, when it is held to, is a particularly lovely thing I enjoy.
Thank you. At least 50 were Protestants. 1 may have been Catholic I recall. The question worth answering is whether Jesus should get far more credit for the Enlightenment, esp social enlightenment. His mission statement in Luke 4 works for the Enlightenment as well, and if you ask the leaders who most inspired them, 95% would say it was Jesus or at least his teachings (As in Jefferson's case).
