national day of prayer

leaningright said:
This is the second time you have come up with this...which is essentially the same thing desh came up with right off the bat. I must respond in about the same way, based on the early documents in our nation's history:

The Creator of the Dofi....laws of nature, etc. I'm sure that's what they were talking about. :rolleyes:
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It's in the same document. Anybody who has studied the period knows that these phrases were often used to refer to the Deist concept of a "God", which is not imagined as a force in our daily lives. The founders believed that rights were based on the nature of man and that God's mind could be known by understanding the laws of nature. But our understanding was still quite limited. There was no explanation for the diversity of life and so the intelligent design argument was an understandable error.


May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826 (in the last letter he penned)
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The DofI was a big fuck you to those who believed the rights of man were based on Christianity or any other belief in God.
 
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