[wideawake]

Thanks for the compliments - separate from them it was a very good post.

I would say that we have had presidents, senators and justices who, while ethnically British, were not Christians in any sense that a modern Christian Fundamentalist would recognize.

That includes John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln.

A general belief in Providence was the preferred religion for much of America's ruling classes in the 1800s.

It wasn't until aggressively atheist and socialist foreign ideologies came to our shores that views began tightening up.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Thanks for the compliments - separate from them it was a very good post.

Every word was true, widey!

I would say that we have had presidents, senators and justices who, while ethnically British, were not Christians in any sense that a modern Christian Fundamentalist would recognize.

That includes John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln.

It would also include Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and a number of the Founders--perhaps including Washington himself.

A general belief in Providence was the preferred religion for much of America's ruling classes in the 1800s.

It wasn't until aggressively atheist and socialist foreign ideologies came to our shores that views began tightening up.

True, and that is why most "tightening up" begins--in response to some sort of attack. That's one reason the Catholicism of Trent was less lenient than that of the Middle Ages (just as an example).

[Zionist Conspirator]

Thanks for the compliments - separate from them it was a very good post.

Every word was true, widey!

I would say that we have had presidents, senators and justices who, while ethnically British, were not Christians in any sense that a modern Christian Fundamentalist would recognize.

That includes John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln.

It would also include Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and a number of the Founders--perhaps including Washington himself.

A general belief in Providence was the preferred religion for much of America's ruling classes in the 1800s.

It wasn't until aggressively atheist and socialist foreign ideologies came to our shores that views began tightening up.

True, and that is why most "tightening up" begins--in response to some sort of attack. That's one reason the Catholicism of Trent was less lenient than that of the Middle Ages (just as an example).