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Talk:George Washington (view source)
Revision as of 00:51, February 4, 2009
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::Does it make out readers better citizens or Christians if we feed them information we know to be false. probably not. Was GW an atheist or secular? No. Was he a Christian? In terms of ritual yes--he attended public services. In terms of his beliefs, probably not. In public and private he used deist terms and ways of thinking. He almost never mentioned Jesus Christ. However, he did insist that religion was good for the nation and wanted to support it.[[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 22:57, 2 February 2009 (EST)
::Does it make out readers better citizens or Christians if we feed them information we know to be false. probably not. Was GW an atheist or secular? No. Was he a Christian? In terms of ritual yes--he attended public services. In terms of his beliefs, probably not. In public and private he used deist terms and ways of thinking. He almost never mentioned Jesus Christ. However, he did insist that religion was good for the nation and wanted to support it.[[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 22:57, 2 February 2009 (EST)
I never advocated presenting information known to be false, I just said that I was tired, as I hope other editors are, of attempts to take Christianity out of American history. WP already does it. CP doesn't need to imitate them. We need to present the conservative perspective of America as the greatest and only example of a free Christian republic. I'm not going to get into an edit war with you, but I hope that some other CP contributors will weigh in here and stand up for the Christian George Washington. [[User:LatinScholar|LatinScholar]] 19:51, 02/09