alt.education

On Apr 2, 2:43=A0pm, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> Nick...@Click.com wrote:
> >On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:34:24 -0400, Bob LeChevalier
> > wrote:
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> >>Nick...@Click.com wrote:
> >>>It is "mere" when the central "god" is the same
>
> >>>Are you suggesting the "god" is different?
>
> >>>You'll have to explain that......
>
> >>Thomas Jefferson said "I am a Christian". =A0He also said that
> >>Calvinists were "demon-worshippers". =A0It sounds like HE thought that
> >>they worshipped a different God than he did.
>
> >That's nothing more than rhetoric
>
> I disagree
>
> If that is nothing more than rhetoric, then nothing written or spoken
> by any other Founder is necessarily anything more than rhetoric, and
> we cannot say that any of them were of any particular belief system.
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Their private letters tell more than any document, or speech any of
them made. You have to remember they were for the most part upper
class, and did not want that overturned. They wanted the status quo
to remain, but you see clearly by their letters, and their actions,
not what they said out loud, that they wanted the churches to have
absolutely no say in the government at all. They made sure they did
not, and Jefferson in his 1802 letter to one of the denomanations that
had written him a letter, responded with the words, "wall of
seperation between church and state." That was the solid stance that
has been used since, and for good reason.
Regards, Ken Hogan