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Friday, January 9, 2009

Religion in the Declaration of Independence

American Creation, a blog whose central focus is "promote discussion, debate and insight into the religious history of America's founding," says of Thomas Jefferson's best-known prose work:

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson lists 27 specific grievances against Great Britain. And since the DOI can be considered the official "note of divorce" from the Mother Country, it is natural for us to assume that these grievances lie at the very heart of the Revolution. After all, the DOI was accepted by the Continental Congress as THE official document in which facts were "submitted to a candid world."

Reviewing the DOI grievance by grievance, American Creation found exactly none about religion and no plain references to Christianity.

Please read it all.


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