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"Our founders were overwhelmingly slave owners and our founding documents (Constitution and Decl. of Indep.) are imbued with slave owning principles from Christian thinkers such as John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, William Blackstone, Samuel Rutherford, Hugo Grotius, Samuel de Puffendorf, and many others. Unlike our leaders of today, our founders were extremely well educated and well-read, especially on history and the lessons to be learned from it. The slave owning heritage of American CANNOT BE DENIED with any credulity.

Spoken like a true dumb-down, public-edcuated, anti-Christian bigot. Every man has his shortcomings - no one is perfect, but our founders had values, unlike the secular humanists of today. It is because of them that you live in a free country (at least it used to be free), it is because of Christianity that you have freedom.

A few of the founders believed in slavery - it was a blind spot. It was a mistake to defer this issue at the Constitutional Convention, no doubt. But people like you want to DEMONIZE these men for their mistake, while ignoring the fact that they gave you your freedom, while ignoring that fact that it was white Christian men who are responsible for freeing the slaves (beginning with Wilberforce in the UK and ending with the Christian abolition movement in the USA)!

Now, either you are ignorant of history or you hate our country and its heritage. Which is it? Let's play some more so I can expose your bigotry and ignorance!

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Pity that you could not see the point I was trying to make, you mental midget. You epitomize the Freepers that I love to toy with...cant see the forest for the trees.

I am free today not because the founders were Christian, but because the founders tired of religous persecution. Hoooooorahhhhh.