tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post5281235550891686533..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Does it matter if any of the American founders were Christians?Hunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-8252879485403901722016-04-03T17:27:46.918-04:002016-04-03T17:27:46.918-04:00what kind of social and political order did the fo...<i> what kind of social and political order did the founders intend to create?</i><br /><br />Quite.<br /><br /><i>Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.---GWash, Farewell Address, 1796</i><br /><br /><br />And even more worthless than speculating on Washington's private beliefs is the endless fascination with the drunken fatuousness of the copious post-presidential private correspondence of theological dilettantes Adams and Jefferson.<br /><br />Not only is it irrelevant because they were retired from public life [and had done their best to conceal their heterodoxies when they were public men], but neither even had a hand in drafting the Constitution. These things<br /><br />http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2016/03/papers-from-jefferson-adams-symposium.html<br /><br />are like looking for your keys not where you dropped them, but over by the streetlamp, where the light's better.<br /><br />Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com