> On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 07:17 AM, Rich Trapp wrote:
>
> Fred,
>
>I'm not endorsing or rejecting Mr. Franklin as authority on this
>subject, but since you like his quotes, perhaps this one will qualify
>as a "good one":
>
>I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made
>the world, and governed it by his Providence; that the most acceptable
>service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal;
>and that all crime will be punished, and virtue reward, either here or
>hereafter.
>
>- Benjamin Franklin's autobiography
>
>Yes that is a good one. Thanks.
>
>Ben was basically a Christian deist (believing in God and Christ but
>not biblical dogma). Many of our Founding Fathers were of a similar
>ilk. Many of their forefathers had come to America to escape the
>religious persecution of various politically powerful churches of the
>UK and western Europe. They didn't want a separation of religion and
>state; just church and state.
>
>Me too.
>
>FW

So I take it that as long as a specific religion, e.g. Lutheran,
Baptist, Quaker, Methodist, Judiasm, etc. is not cited, you have no
problem with the display of the Ten Commandments in Alabama's Supreme
Court rotunda? The monument also has quotes from other sources that
taken as a whole form some of the basis of our legal system. After all,
no church of any particular order held worship services around the
monument.

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