The tern 'Christian' is used to describe a whole lot more 'religions' or 'denominations' than just Protestants and Catholics....
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "That's fine, but uh...if any of them actually DID fact check what he >> said....they'd find out he was wrong. This country was NOT founded as a >> Christian nation, for instance." >> >> You may be right, if he said that. What if he said this country was founded >> by Christians? What would a fact check reveal then? > > A fact check would reveal (as I've posted here before) that he'd still > be wrong if he is using any sort of modern definition of "Christian". > The first several Presidents, for instance, we either Deists or > Universalists (precursors to the modern day Unitarian Universalists). > So if you are using Christian to mean Protestant or Catholic, which > people generally are, then that statement would be untrue. > > Juda > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325980 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
