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itellu3times2/08/2009 6:01:18 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.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but religion was hardly any kind of an issue in American (national) politics, 1776 to about, oh, last year, after a decade or two of fulminations by the Democrats about the evangelicals being mostly on the Republican side.