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Article: FOUNDING FATHERS WEREN'T DEVOUT CHRISTIANS.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1995
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Byline: STEVEN MORRIS Special to the Los Angeles Times
The Christian right is trying to rewrite the history of the United States as part of its campaign to force its view of religion on others who ask merely to be left alone. According to this Orwellian revision, the Founding Fathers were devout Christians who envisioned a Christian nation.
Not true. The early presidents and patriots were generally deists or Unitarians, believing in some form of impersonal Providence but rejecting the divinity of Jesus and the relevance of the Bible.
Thomas Paine, pamphleteer whose manifestoes encouraged the faltering spirits of the country and aided ...