[kosta50]

You mentioned the DoI and characterized it a Deist document. Jefferson is the principle author of the document. He and the others of the Congress are responsible for the values expressed by the document. The document didn't write itself.

Nevertheless they all signed it and therefore gave their consent to the wording, which has no Christ, no triune God or even the word God in it. It's a deist document. It's not a Christian document. Period.

[YHAOS]

“Nevertheless they all signed it and therefore gave their consent to the wording, which has no Christ, no triune God or even the word God in it. It's a deist document. It's not a Christian document. Period.”

Nevertheless all those who gave their consent to the wording understood the capitalized Creator to mean the Judeo-Christian God. It is not a Deist document. It is a document expressing the Christian philosophies of the Founding Fathers. Period.

[betty boop]

Nevertheless they all signed it and therefore gave their consent to the wording, which has no Christ, no triune God or even the word God in it. It's a deist document. It's not a Christian document. Period.

Well jeepers, kosta, if all you care about is wording, then how do you plan to successfully communicate with people who take their cues and clues directly from real experience, and from historical knowledge?

Experience is primary. Words can only be descriptive of that primary. And we hope their use corresponds directly with that primary, so as to fully convey its meaning, its truth.

Otherwise, what is the point of human language?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘Nevertheless they all signed it and therefore gave their consent to the wording, which has no Christ, no triune God or even the word God in it. It’s a deist document. It’s not a Christian document. Period.’

By that argument, none of the signers of the Declaration were Christians. Including the Roman Catholic Charles Carroll of Carrollton.