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

[William J Poser]

>The framers of the US Constitution were deists which posed a Christian
>theological interpretation...

Umm, I wouldn't say this. It is true that deists like Jefferson came
out of a Christian tradition, but they were not Christians in the sense
in which the overwhelming majority of Christians today are. Jefferson,
for example, denied the doctrine of the Trinity. He called the Christian god
"a being of terrific character -- cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust".
He denied the factual accuracy of the Bible and advised his nephew to
"read the Bible as you would Livy or Tacitus", that is, skeptically.
He denied that Jesus was the son of god and that he was born of a virgin.
He described the Gospels as having "a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticism, and fabrications".

Bill