Deists don’t appeal to God: This nation’s founders were not deists

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Written By Mike Smith

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We must, please, for all time, put to rest the false claim that the founders of these united states were Deists. One must be completely ignorant of the founders’ beliefs or unable to think logically or a liar, likely with an unAmerican agenda, to maintain that claim in the face of the definitive evidence to the contrary.

(Combinations of the preceding explanations for their moronic claims allowed; for instance they could be liars AND unable to think logically. (My apologies to morons.)

From the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Deism:

1. belief in the existence of a God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of the supernatural revelation (distinguished from THEISM).

2. Belief in a God who created the world but has since remained indifferent to it.

Let us examine the most basic of the documents by which this nation’s founders’ set themselves and the united states of America apart from King George III, and, frankly, the rest of the world. Yes, the WHOLE REST OF THE WORLD.

You will find the following words in the Declaration of Independence.

“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

In so much as these men declared their faith; that God would protect them in this endeavour- freedom for themselves and their posterity (yes, you)- we effectively eliminate the second definition of Deism. Surely if these men believed that God created the world but has since remained indifferent to it they wouldn’t be appealing to Him (yes, Him) for His protection, and they especially would not be proclaiming their confidence in His protection as “a firm reliance”.

In describing their intention to break away from the unresponsive and unGodly government- the monarchy of King George III- which was oppressing them, so as to form a new government, they included these words in their declaration:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires…”

We take note of these words in particular, “…the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God…”

As the founders refer to the laws of nature and the God of nature here, those who are deists, or want to ascribe Deism as the founders’ belief system, may be tempted to think that the founders’ are describing their beliefs in according with definition one.

Not so, heaven forbid!

In fact they are merely referring to the fact that they recognize that God is the God of all- the creator of all- including nature. The founders did well understand that the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it as David tells us in Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

(As a matter of fact, that explains why God can justifiably judge every one of us. He created us; we’re His. And a judge, by definition, is not indifferent in his judging- impartial maybe- but not indifferent.)

Back to the founders, though, and their declaration,

Would you believe that they called God “Judge”? Yes, though the Deists would have us believe that the founders believed that God created the universe and then “went to Jamaica to get away from it all” (as a Political Science professor of mine once claimed) they called God, “Supreme Judge of the World” as they appealed to Him for rectitude of their intentions.

Would the Deists have us believe that the founders are like 10 year old children who don’t believe in Santa Claus but yet write a letter to the red-clad one assuring him that they’ve been good all year “just in case”? Methinks those who propagate the claim that “The founders were Deists” really ARE both. (Liars AND unable to think logically I mean.)

But those who propagate this mindless, asinine claim must explain to us how the founders who wrote, further, “…appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions…” would appeal to that Judge for the rectitude of their intentions unless, in fact, a God of authority had revealed Himself to them. That plus the fact that they truly, very publicly, recognize the Creator as Judge effectively prove that definition number one is not in effect either.

So there it is, the founders’ own words and the dictionary- together they prove that the founders were not deists. In so much as those who continue to make the false claim do not respect the truth, I believe them to be enemies of these united states. Without truth we have nothing. They should be ashamed of themselves. And beyond disproving the Deism charge there is no shortage of evidence- again the founders’ own writings- which prove that they were neither mere theists but, in fact, worship the God that sent his only begotten Son, Jesus that they might have life.

All one needs to have this proven to himself- or herself- is a desire to seek the truth and a library- or the internet.
Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact.”

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