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Randall Gross2/08/2009 6:00:25 pm PST

re: #459 HelloDare

I did a search of the Federalist Papers online awhile ago to see how many times God or religion was mentioned. I don’t believe god was. I also searched euphemisms for god, like father and…I forget what else. Religion was mentioned, I forget, 9 or 10. Don’t remember the exact number. It usually had to do with stuff like beware of foreign intrigue from political parties, religion… stuff like that. Alexander Hamilton was a very religious man, yet he did not refer to god in the Federalist Papers.

That’s because to the founding fathers your religion was your business, and not everyone else’s. I like that notion. When religion goes political is when it gets in trouble, almost every time if you review history.