Question cocerning the native term for god(s) and imported Christianity

phil cash cash pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET
Sun Aug 31 20:21:18 UTC 2008


gee Bill, relax...there is no point to defend or address here, much  
less a Christian one.  Phil



On Aug 31, 2008, at 1:15 PM, William J Poser wrote:

> Phil,
>
> I don't understand your response. My point, which you have not  
> addressed,
> is that Jefferson's religious views were radically different from  
> those
> of mainstream Christianity, so he could not have imposed a Christian
> theological interpretation on the Constitution unless by this you mean
> something so vague as merely coming from a Christian tradition. I  
> didn't
> deny that he was a deist (though his views often tended toward  
> outright
> atheism, though he didn't quite go there in a consistent way).
>
> Bill



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