ALso claiming the founding fathers were Christian.
Weren't something like 90-95% of them, though?
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ChiKat - May 10, 2012 10:45:50 am PDT #4467 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
tommyrot - May 10, 2012 10:47:33 am PDT #4468 of 30001
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Weren't something like 90-95% of them, though?
A bunch of them were Deists, but I disremember the percentages....
Sophia Brooks - May 10, 2012 10:47:42 am PDT #4469 of 30001
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Weren't something like 90-95% of them, though?
Well, weren't the Deists? Which I would call Chrsitian, but I think some of the more evangelical churches use the word christian only to refer to their religion. I have met people who think Catholics are not Christian.
ChiKat - May 10, 2012 10:49:56 am PDT #4470 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
According to Wikipedia (so don't know if it's true): "Of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, 49 were Protestants, and three were Roman Catholics"
So that leaves, 3 others as deists.
Connie Neil - May 10, 2012 10:51:47 am PDT #4471 of 30001
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There are so many different flavors of Protestant, though. For a while, Protestant simply meant "believes the Pope is not all that."
Dana - May 10, 2012 10:52:12 am PDT #4472 of 30001
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ChiKat - May 10, 2012 10:53:33 am PDT #4473 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
There are so many different flavors of Protestant, though
Again, per Wikipedia: "Among the Protestant delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 28 were Church of England (or Episcopalian, after the American Revolutionary War was won), eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutherans, two were Dutch Reformed, and two were Methodists."
Tom Scola - May 10, 2012 10:55:40 am PDT #4474 of 30001
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I would have expected at least a few Quakers.
erikaj - May 10, 2012 10:56:13 am PDT #4475 of 30001
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They were Christian, but probably not like FB person means. And most of "Dr." David Barton's "Told ya so," statements on the subject do not hold up under scrutiny.(Not mine, other smarter, people's.) Chris Rodda wrote some great diaries about that in DK.
msbelle - May 10, 2012 10:58:59 am PDT #4476 of 30001
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I didn't think Deist was considered Christian. This [link] says that Franklin and Jefferson were Deists, but I guess that ia really all, so my bad. I thought Washington and or Hamilton were not really church-going, but that may just be in my head. What would it have been like at that time to declare oneself a non-believer?