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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Kenny Pearce on Deism

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I have not heard of this scholar before. But he comes to similar conclusions on the definition and understanding of "deism" as Jo...
Friday, February 23, 2024

America: The Revived Roman Republic

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Biblical conspiracy theorists hypothesize about the identity of the "revived Roman Empire" who will host the Antichrist during end...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Observations on Senator Josh Hawley's Christian Nation Piece Part II

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See Part I here . More from Sen. Hawley: God gave rulers authority to command and coerce,  but only insofar as they protected the liberties ...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Observations on Senator Josh Hawley's Christian Nation Piece Part I

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He wrote this for First Things , a respected scholarly journal. Let me note up front I'm not interested in fighting political-cultural w...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

How Dr. Waligore Categorizes Different Theologies

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This post is intended to be a brief overview of Dr. Joseph Waligore's new book on deism . I plan on having much more to say, but in this...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Dr. Joseph Waligore's New Book on Deism

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  I've been absent from blogging for a few months because of a busy work-life (better to be busy than not!), but I've been planning ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

The American and French Revolutions: Locke, Calvin and Hobbes

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A short time ago I briefly engaged an author who wrote a book on Christianity and the American Founding that purported to "defend"...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

The Bogus Patrick Henry Quotation

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First off, I'd like to thank " Rational Rant " for alerting me to this. I've long known that the below mentioned Patrick H...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Denominational Affiliation Tells Us Little

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I recently was involved in a discussion where, alas, the name of David Barton came up. At this point, I think Barton is a distraction from ...
Friday, February 03, 2023

Rubin on George Washington's Approach To the "Christian Nation" Question

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Writing at the Washington Post , Jennifer Rubin has an article entitled, "Think America Is A ‘Christian Nation’? George Washington Didn...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Samuel Seabury Leverages The Church of England into Communion With American Episcopalians

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If it's fair to even call it "communion." If we want to understand the political theology of the American founding and its att...
Friday, November 25, 2022

John Adams' FU Letter to Jedidiah Morse

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This is another  post of mine from 2008 on John Adams' response to one Jedidiah Morse on the concept  of Unitarianism.  Adams was a fer...
Friday, November 04, 2022

Revisiting George Washington and Richard Price

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I wrote this in 2008 . It's not bad. Though, I think I could have written a stronger piece. The point I take from intensely studying Geo...
Sunday, October 02, 2022

Arnold's Article on James Madison, Anti-Christian Nationalist

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This is is very thorough and well argued article from a brilliant young scholar, Gordon Dakota Arnold. He sympathizes with the perspective ...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Lillback Repeats Phony Quotation

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In 2022 .  Dr. Peter Lillback, President of Westminster Theological Seminary has done some legitimate scholarly work on the history of theol...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Bolingbroke's Deism

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I am still around and blogging, just busy with some work/life issues which is why you haven't heard from me in a while. One of the highl...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Cambridge Article on Ben Franklin and The Reasonableness of Christianity

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This very dense article by one Kevin Slack is found here . There are many good things in this article, most of which I've already seen; ...