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  • From: Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Marriage and religion
  • Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:26:36 -0500


On Feb 6, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Shea Tisdale wrote:

It may be a deist belief or the belief of other religions, but it doesn't
exclude it from also being a Christian belief. The question then becomes
how many of the authors of those documents were Buddhist, Taoist, Islamic,
etc. I think the answer is none. And since all of the founding fathers
came from a Judeo/Christian background, I think the attribution of those
concepts is appropriate.

The founding fathers had a variety of personal beliefs, including Christian, but many of the quotes thrown around to support the idea of a Christian nation are, ahem, inaccurate:

http://www.atheists.org/courthouse/charlotte.html#inaccurate

(i.e., fabricated, made up, misquoted, etc.)
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