"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>:|"buckeye" <buckeyeelo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>:|> The Founders on Religion by James H. Hutson Princeton University
Press,
>:|> 280
>:|> pages, $19.95 -Jonathan Rowe
>:|> http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=5405
>:|> [excerpt]
>:|>
>:|> James Hutson offers reliable quotations by the Founding Fathers on
>:|> religion. Hutson himself says that recent "quote books" on religion
and
>:|> the
>:|> founding display "a cavalier attitude toward factual accuracy." As
chief
>:|> of
>:|> the manuscript division at the Library of Congress, Hutson brings
some
>:|> much-needed scholarly credibility to this genre.
>:|> [end excerpt]
>:|>
>:|Considering who he is holding his position under, I'll
>:|stand by "The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents From
>:|Wa****ngton to F.D.R" by Franklin Steiner published by
>:|The Freethought Library through Prometheus Books,
>:|ISBN 0-87975-975-5 This isn't a recent book, but it is
>:|thoroughly researched.
>:|
>:|The general view of those who have reviewed Hutson's
>:|book is that, though Hutson is religious, he is not biased.
>:|I'll probably buy his book to make comparisons.
No one can seem to find any real information about who Franklin Steiner
was, as far as credentials and experience and there are errors in his book
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why
"a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v.
Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
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