(November 17, 2014 at 10:50 am)Alex K Wrote: I find many American's treatment of the founding fathers as some kind of messianic figures, whose intentions were magical, mildly amusing. Of course it is nice to have some sort of reference frame to point to, but damn it, who cares what they thought and believed? Does anyone find democratic principles, secularism, the constitution to be persuasive because some old farts said so? What if it turned out that Hitler was secretly ghost writing the bill of rights as a joke? It would make no difference at all.
Indeed, it's the values that are important, not the people who preach them.
