Evangelical Apostasy

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At 12:11 AM 3/31/98 -0800, Farrell Till wrote:

>TILL

>You need to learn a bit more about Deism.  This religious philosophy was

>accepted by many of the so-called founding fathers.


These silly word games you play are meaningless and make you
out to be a fool. Of course Washington was a Deist. A Deist,
for your information, believes in God regardless of the words
used to express that concept. Washington's favorite term for
God was 'Grand Architect' which is Masonic. Deism is extremely
close to my own philosophy with God doing nothing after
Creation.


>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).


English professors rarely know much if anything about the nature
of semantics. Are you familiar with Korzybski's axioms? Do you
understand the implications of E-Prime English? Do you see the
errors of identity and predication in language?

I happen to have a master's degree in Colonial History acquired 
after I retired in 1988. I'm also a Master Mason who has written
several scholarly articles in Masonic journals on Washington's
and other Deists' philosophy which in large part are tied in with
Freemasonry. I had access to material written by Washington not
available to the public. I also have BD and DD degrees, was ordained
by a fundamentalist group in Tennessee and later by a liberal group
in California. I have two earned doctorates in medicine and law and
have both studied and taught at more than a dozen universities, all
in the United States. None of which means diddly squat for either
of us in the context of this list.

Does the words senility or Alzheimer's ring any bells?

Dick Jones, BA (biology, chemistry, geography, triple major,
summa cum, Phi Beta Kappa), LLB, MA (Colonial History),
JD (Implied Contracts), MD, DD
Physician-Attorney (Retired)

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