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I'm not sure that Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson count as "people in 1830" in the same way that the Salem Witch Trials might constitute "people in 1692". I'm also of the opinion that you should also account for the other two points, even if to say that you don't mean to refute them by refuting the third.


I am not trying to refute the other two points, I just quoted the whole sentence so it would make sense.

I would like to think that the 1700s and 1800s represented a golden age in American religiosity, where our political and cultural leaders were deeply spiritual, yet not biblical literalists. Now, it seems that dialog has broken down and we are in fractious camps. I'm sure I am just romanticizing the period though.


Thanks for the reply. I didn't think you were trying to refute the other two points, but I was interested in overt clarity.

Whether or not you've romanticized, "Deist" no longer seems to be a position "mainstream" politicians can admit to.




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