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Major Nikon

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12. Lincoln was almost certainly a Deist just like most of the founding fathers

Reply to jayschool (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 25, 2012, 01:48 AM

Jan 2012

So if you dig into the history a bit more, it really gets interesting in how that phrase has been perverted.

I get a chuckle out of the historical revisionist GOP nutbags who ignorantly proclaim that the US is a "Christian nation" and as proof for their poorly researched assertion they offer up the references to a higher power found in early political leaders' writings. The higher power in that Deists believed does not in any way resemble the imaginary friend that the fundies pretend to converse. If the US were a nation of Deists, we wouldn't be burdened with all the problems fundies have created.

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