Patrick Elliott <kag### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Strictly speaking, some of that might be vaguely true, if you a) ignore 
> the number of them that where basically deists, b) the one or two that 
> might have been pagans, or c) the fact that many, including Jefferson, 
> might, if such a thing had been an option, declared themselves agnostic, 
> or even atheist. The man, after all, rewrote the Bible, taking out every 
> single thing in it that might have been called "supernatural", which I 
> presume included creationism, Adam and Eve, in the sense most Christians 
> understand, etc.

Besides, even if we assumed that all the Founding Fathers were 100%
fundamentalist creationist Christians and had the full intent on making
the United States a Christian theocracy... so what?

I have always wondered why Americans take the constitution and other
founding documents as Holy Scripture. They are the unchanging truth.
If the Founding Fathers intended for thing X, then that's the absolute
truth and it's set in stone forever, and cannot be changed, ever. It's
just a question of understanding what they meant.

Even the idea that the Founding Fathers might have been wrong, that they
were just flawed humans who lived in the 18th century, that they were not
perfect, is tantamous to blasphemy.

I don't know of any other country where the Constitution is considered
such a Holy Scripture that even the idea of correcting it, or even just
clarifying it, seems blasphemous.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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