Meanwhile, elsewhere on the blogosphere ...
Jonathan Rowe discusses Washington's religion on the Positive Liberty website.
Jon is something of an expert on religion and the Founding. He writes:
[T]he dispute over the Founding Fathers’ religion has been going on for some time. Even though the letter was written to the New York Times in 1897, the points are still apt. Moncure Conway was a freethinker who did some notable scholarship on George Washington’s religion, in particular his lack of Christian orthodoxy.One of the things I like about Jon is his honest scholarship and attention to primary sources. For example, when discussing the 1783 Circular to the States and Washington's address to the Delaware Indians, he points out that these are the only two places Washington discusses the name or person of Jesus at all.
Moncure D. Conway on Washington’s Religion (from Positive Liberty)
1 comment:
Does it matter whether they believed in the Christian faith back then???
Or more importantly, as today, whether they believe in the Christian ethic?
"Love one another"
"Treat others as you'd like them to treat you"
9 of the first 12 US Presidents were slave owners.
Black men weren't given the right to vote until 1870, Women of any skin color couldn't vote until 1920, and only after years of petitioning to acquire the right.
So much for the enlightenment of our Founders.
So much for today's Christian ethic ---- 1,000,000 dead as a result of the Iraq war. Another 200000 Iraqis dead as a result of the 1st Gulf War.
The best way to change the dynamic is to change the energetic composition of the participants.
We need a special election that replaces every other male in the US House and US Senate with a female for 50/50 representation.
It is still a patriarchal structure, and one that should have been changed a long time ago to one of true gender parity. Only then will be have a representative republic that at least fairly has an equality for that 52% of the populace unrepresentated for the first 230 years.
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