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Tuesday, July 08, 2025

William Livingston on Church-State Separation

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I wrote this in 2010 . Here is the "quotation" from Livingston, I uncovered: Hence the motley junction of king-craft and priest-cr...
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 ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Voegelin View Reviews Waligore's Book on Deism

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Check it out here . A taste: Joseph Waligore’s  The Spirituality of the English and American Deists: How God Became Good  marvels at all the...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

World Magazine 2024 Article on Christian Nationalism

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This is a good article . It mentions many familiar names. A taste: Gregg Frazer is dean of humanities and professor of history and political...
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...