Evangelical Apostasy

Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:11:24 -0800 (00891353484, 2.2.32.19980331081124.00728228@midwest.net) 

At 08:07 PM 3/30/98 -0600, box191@iland.net wrote:

>At 07:17 PM 3/30/98 -0800, Farrell Till wrote:

>>he had "loaded his

>>first Inaugural Address with appeals to the 'Great Author,' 'Almighty

>>Being,' 'invisible hand,' and 'benign parent of the human race,' but

>>apparently could not bring himself to speak the word 'God.'"

>>

>>Jones needs to do a little research before he posts about the religious

>>beliefs of the founding fathers.

>

JONES

>And you need to learn a bit more of basic English to understand

>what 'Great Author" and 'Almighty Being' mean. Do you imagine

>the word 'God' is not identical to the 'Almighty Being'? George

>was not preaching a sermon. The fact that he referred to God

>using any terminology is significant.

>


TILL
You need to learn a bit more about Deism.  This religious philosophy was
accepted by many of the so-called founding fathers.  Deists tried to avoid
using the word God, because they thought that it was corrupted with
Christian connotations. Therefore, it was common of them to use such terms
as you see in Washington's speech cited above.  He was a Deist; therefore,
he avoided the use of the word "God."

You have bragged a bit, so now it's my turn.  If you don't mind, I won't
take your advice to learn a bit more of basic English, because I don't need
to.  I will be 65 next month, and I am a retired college teacher.  My field
was English, so for 30 years, I taught college writing and literature.  One
of my literature courses included Revolutionary War literature, so I had to
assimilate at least a little bit of information about Deism.  Before
beginning my college career, I spent twelve years as a fundamentalist
preacher and foreign missionary.  I attended two Bible colleges, received a
bachelor's and master's degree from one, did post graduate work at eight
different universities, including the Sorbonne in Paris and the University
of Nancy (France).

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net