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Thread #79712   Message #1453029
Posted By: Greg F.
05-Apr-05 - 05:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Subject: RE: BS: Ten Commandments on Public Property?
Sorry, Dave, but you're WAY off the mark.

Should you care to investigate, I think you'll find that just about nine out of ten ( if not 100%)of the the "founding fathers" (ugh! I hate that cliché) were firm believers in Rationalism and the writings of the Philosophes- the intellectual movement which held that we can arrive at the truth by using our reason rather than relying on any external authority or special revelation (church, God, etc)and that the system of government they devised and the Constutiuon they created was based on Rationilist precepts rather than those of "Judeo-Christian ethics"[sic]- whatever you intend that to mean.

Read up on your Leibnitz, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Descartes, then check out Locke & Adam Smith.

Then get back to me.