Geoff FOWLER wrote: --- As far as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin go (as well as perhaps others of the Founding Fathers), their drift toward deism and away from institutionalized Christianity may have been as much due to the corrupt sects of the day as any other. Perhaps history knows them as such because they sought to distance themselves from false Christianity. ---
Only the most perverse of revisionists invented the notion that Jefferson and Franklin were anything but practicing and devoted Christians. They would have been prime candidates to receive the assertions Jesus made to Joseph Smith about traditional Christianity--that their professors were all corrupt, and their creeds were an abomination. That Joseph Smith believed and taught this does not qualify _him_ as a "deist". In that context, to argue the same about the US founding fathers is specious and tendentious. It is instructive that many of the revisionists who spin this "deist" misinformation, primarily about Jefferson, are openly and dogmatically promoting their own flavor of atheist or agnostic evangelism. There is really no compelling documentation to support their arguments, and every evidence to suggest that Jefferson, at least, was a devoutly and fervently religious man in his own right. --- Mij Ebaboc ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
