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Line 284: − ::Newtons write a million words on religion --a great deal of which was on the Trinity--and these were not accessible to scholars until the 20th century. The few items he published on relighion in his lifetime were ambiguous--they had to be because only believers in the Trinity could hold university of government jobs. Many conservative historians like westfall have now worked through the unpublished material and they are in consensus that he was an Arian. He had a secondary role for Jesus, one certainly not equal to God the Father, which is the key ingredient of Arianism. Jesus he thought of as the great mediator between God and man (much the way Catholics thought of Mary in that role). Basically he believed a massive fraud had been committed around 400 AD when the Catholic Church suppressed the Arians. He considered the Arians to be the true Christians. see Thomas C. Pfizenmaier, "Was Isaac Newton an Arian?," ''Journal of the History of Ideas,'' Vol. 58, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 57-80 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3653988 in JSTOR] for elaborate detail. Line 294:
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, 02:27, September 17, 2008Arians are Christians too
: You may be right. Thanks for your insights. I've unlocked the content page and you can improve with your supported statements. Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 12:01, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
: You may be right. Thanks for your insights. I've unlocked the content page and you can improve with your supported statements. Godspeed.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 12:01, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
== Principa Mathematica ==
== Principa Mathematica ==
The wholesale deletion of persuasive evidence that Newton was a Christian was unjustified. At Conservapedia, we do not simply repeat the consensus of modern atheists, who obviously have bias against Newton being a Christian.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:05, 16 September 2008 (EDT)
The wholesale deletion of persuasive evidence that Newton was a Christian was unjustified. At Conservapedia, we do not simply repeat the consensus of modern atheists, who obviously have bias against Newton being a Christian.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:05, 16 September 2008 (EDT)
::Newton certainly was a Christian--the problem was that he believed in the Arian version, which orthodox Christians considered a heresy. Newton thought the Arians were the true Christians. He would lose his job if he published that idea so he kept it to his notebooks, which were unavailable to scholars until the 20th century. (They had been owned by a private family who stored them in a vault.) [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 22:27, 16 September 2008 (EDT)