(October 3, 2014 at 3:07 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Drich, did you notice few people are being quoted and requoted. There were more people in the continental congress that Franklin, Jefferson and Madison. Never hear them quote William Penn do you? Doesn't fit their narrative. And Thomas Paine, really? He was a pamphleteer. That's like saying Michael Moore represents the mainstream opinion of congress.
FWIW, Johnny Appleseed was a Swedenborgian.
It fits my narrative.
No one is questioning the fact that many of the founding fathers were Christian.
But they (even the Christians) went out of their way to create a secular government.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
