glebel wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
It seemed as if many of the Founding Fathers believed in a "God" that created the world, then left us to figure it out for ourselves.
Sounds like your buying into the " The Founding Fathers were Deists" mythology. Actually, most were mainstream Christians of one form or another. They chose terms like "Divine Providence" and "Creator" because then, like now, there is no real agreement on how to refer to God. As for what my political beliefs are, I define myself as a conservative with libertarian leanings, not as a left winger or a right winger.
While the notion that the founders all being Deists has probably been overstated, the fact remains, many of them clearly were, though there were also plenty of what we would term mainline Christians among them. The notion that they were fundamentalist Christians is a modern fundie myth.
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