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The Declaration, the “Creator,” and “Nature’s God”

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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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