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Old 03-09-2008, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Voltaire View Post
We can all google my good fellow! A deist, like myself, believes a higher intelligence is responsible for all this, but not in one particular intelligence. The typical deist abhors organized religion, which is why I find it hard to believe that America was a theocracy in it's younger years, and even if there were inklings of one, the most brilliant men in this country modeled their government of the philosophies and politics of none other than yours turly, Voltaire! (among others).
Thanks for the links. We all know most of the founders were deists, however some were not. I'm not going to break out books for this unless you want a debate about who was religious and who claimed to be deists.

What I did say, however, was "America began as a theocratic state" which is true.
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