I’ve more or less been staying away from politics until after the national conventions because right now the political cycle is simply a morass of various messages and screeds being floated as test balloons. The real campaigning won’t start until mid-September.
But Sunday, I awoke to read this story and had to do a double-take:

Obama, McCain [...]

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Previously I took some time to look at the Declaration of Independence and its status as a legal, binding document for America. In briefly addressing Jefferson’s use of “the Creator” and “Nature’s God” in the Declaration, I wrote this:

Yet the Declaration’s language of “Nature’s God” and the “Creator”—tenuously religious terms of 18th Century Deists, skeptical [...]

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For some inexplicable reason, more and more frequently I have been seeing reference to the Declaration of Independence as some sort of evidence that America is a Christian nation. What better day than the 4th of July to address this document and its historical role in our government.
Contrary to popular belief, the Declaration of Independence [...]

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