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I agree with your point, Ralph, that the Mormon deity is not the God that Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe in, and I should have been more careful in acknowledging that the "god" of the majority of the founding fathers was a disinterested party in the functioning of his creation. The point I know we both agree on is that regardless of the "God" claimed, it is an insult to both the Abrahamic faiths as well as to other countries to claim Divine inspiration in the formation of our Constitution. I promised to rant further on my blog yesterday, but life happened. If you're interested, though, check Prevailing Winds later . . . <br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">To: Vision2020@moscow.com<br>From: nielsen@uidaho.edu<br>Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:08:54 -0800<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Which God?<br><br><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Doesn't Rammell believe in the Mormon God? So now we have four different Gods: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Mormon, all in the so-called Abrahamic tradition. And then there is the God of some of the Founding Fathers, the deistic God, who created the universe, wound it up, and left it to run by itself, just like a giant clock. So he was NOT involved in writing the Constitution, it was written by human beings, the Founding Fathers.</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Ralph </span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Courier" size="3"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Keely wrote:</span></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Courier" size="4">The meeting of prominent businessmen that serves as the context for Rammell's comments featured suggestions that the U.S. Constitution is somehow "divinely inspired," which is what Christians and Jews and Muslims say of their Scriptures. Presumably Rammell identifies with Christianity; if so, he ought to be ashamed at the thought that God can be co-opted to author a nation's founding documents.</font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Courier" size="4">I will be ranting about this later on the blog, but I think the point needs to be made now.</font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Courier" size="4">Keely</font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Courier" size="4">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</font></div><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; min-height: 16px;"><br></div> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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