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Founding fathers & video blogs
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:10:55 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Bonnie L Bucqueroux <bucquero () msu edu> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:53:38 -0500 To: Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Founding fathers & video blogs Below is part of my political blog for the Detroit News, with a link to The State News article showing how irreligious our founding fathers really were. <http://info.detnews.com/weblog/?blogid=3399> In fact, our country was founded by a radical bunch of secularists and atheists. Michigan State staffer John Bice points out that Jefferson actually scissored out the parts in the Bible that referred to angels and such. In his amazingly well-researched article in the The State News, Bice wrote, "The Rev. Bird Wilson, an Episcopal minister and historian, lamented in an 1831 sermon, 'The founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels.'" <http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=28235> When conservatives get misty-eyed about our founding fathers (never our mothers), they are letting their ignorance obscure the reality that revolutionaries like Jefferson and Paine would be horrified by today's efforts to push schools into teaching creationism and (un)intelligent design. Paine branded the bible "absurd" - a pack of "lies and contradictions." Makes you long for the good old days, doesn't it? BTW - http://info.detnews.com/weblog - I have started videoblogging for the DEtroit News -- if you look at the upper-right of the page, you will see a link to my new offering. Visit again later this week and you will see that my dog Schmoopsie and I go to Hollywood to help Chris Rock battle Matt Drudge, now that we've bee kicked out of the Pentagon for a while. Faithful reader - Bonnie Bucqueroux ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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