Originally posted by seer
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Right, so the point being that belief in God can be socially good as well as bad, personally helpful or not. So why bring up belief in God as a social negative in the first place?
Doesn't make it false either.
I was merely presenting the rationale of the Founders, points I happen to agree with.
These two Founding Fathers were also instrumental in drawing up the Declaration of Independence and it's reference to God is certainly not what you like to say it is. Thomas Jefferson in an April 11, 1823, letter to John Adams: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. ... But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding...."
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