Author Topic: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present  (Read 108 times)

UAK

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Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
« on: August 03, 2005, 06:05:52 PM »
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194030.html

Thomas Jefferson was a Deist, I've never heard of this religion before.

Not bad it's pretty much on an Agnostic level.



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Historical and modern Deism are defined by the view that reason, rather than revelation or tradition, should be the basis of belief in God. Deists reject organized religion and promote reason as the essential element in making moral decisions. This "rational" basis was usually founded upon the cosmological argument (first cause argument), the teleological argument (argument from design), and other aspects of what was called natural religion. Deism has become identified with the classical belief that God created but does not intervene in the world, though this is not a necessary component of deism.

The first six and four later Presidents of the United States had strong deistic or allied beliefs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deist
 

mauzip

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Re: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2005, 06:07:39 PM »
who cares?
 

7even

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Re: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2005, 06:34:19 PM »
if you don't care don't post you fuckin attention whore.
Cause I don't care where I belong no more
What we share or not I will ignore
And I won't waste my time fitting in
Cause I don't think contrast is a sin
No, it's not a sin
 

J Bananas

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Re: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2005, 07:43:24 PM »
Several American presidents were freemasons
 

Don Jacob

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Re: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2005, 02:41:21 AM »
i didn't know the Episcopalian religion was so popular


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