Governor Mitt Romney’s statement about his religious beliefs prompts examination of what the founding people of the country believed about the political doctrines underlying the new nation. There is not one clear word in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution which refers to the deity in terms of being related to Jesus Christ. In fact many of the people involved in formulation of our political documents were disciples of the English Deists and the French Philosophs [note: no correction necessary], notably lacking in faith in the God who is related in any way to Jesus Christ, who is the heart of the Christian faith.
Perhaps all of us should remember a word which first appeared in another generation in a Mid-Western newspaper which said, “There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.”
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