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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Sexuality
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- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 21:30:23 GMT
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- rodney james freier (freier@mail.physics.utah.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1hvjgsINNah5@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- writes:
- : |> fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands) writes:
- : |> > First, the country was not founded on Christian values -- it was deliber
- ately
- : |> > set up as a secular society, in order to not have the religious wars
- : |> > and persecutions common in Europe.
- : |>
- : |> Partially right; it was set up to not have a state church, but it
- : |> was also largely based on what can be called 'Christian values'.
- : |>
- : |> Walter
- : |>
- : Careful. Better make that Deist values. Most of our founding
- : fathers were not Christian.
- :
-
- Careful. From research that I did to respond to a similar argument on a local
- BBS, I found that 51 of the 55 signers of the Declaration of Independence were
- Protestants. Of the 39 signers of the Constitution, the only information I
- could find was that 2 were Roman Catholics and Ben Franklin was a Deist.
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- Even if you choose to ignore it.|back. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata
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