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Thursday, June 19, 2025

John Adams: Loved the Bible but thought its Extant Texts Corrupted By Institutional Authorities

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John Adams' eccentric and nuanced opinions of the Bible/Christian religion are especially prone to "out of context," cherry pi...
Monday, June 16, 2025

John Quincy Adams Believed All Bibles Contained Errors

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When discussing the Old Testament, Adams ranks which version he prefers; though he notes he thought all translations contained errors.  As h...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Briefly More From St. George Tucker on Church and State

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This more from St. George Tucker's commentary on William Blackstone and common law principles. Tucker worked with Thomas Jefferson and ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

America's Founders, Christianity and the Common Law

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The English jurist William Blackstone is properly regarded as the preeminent authority behind English common law. After successfully separa...
Monday, May 26, 2025

An Old Jared Sparks Post is Still Relevant

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I wrote this in 2008 (yeah, I've been doing this for a while). I'm hoping to shed light on some of the "issues" relating ...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Does this Quotation Reveal John Adams as a "Conspiracy Theorist"?

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I will let the readers decide. It's also not the only one Adams has given like this (he actually has many). But this one well captures h...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Burr is a Founding Father

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Over the years, we delved very deeply into the "were America's founders Christians or Deists ?" debate and one issue is ...