The Faith (and Doubts) of Our Fathers  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8764 (Dec. 2011), page 64-66.
Topik: Political Behavior; Religion & Politics; Presidential Elections; American History
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In the year of our Lord 1816 two grand old men of the American Revolution corresponded eagerly about the work they had recently done, in their rural retirement, on the Bible. Ex-President Thomas Jefferson thanked his old friend Charles Thomson, a co-sponsor of the Declaration of Independence, for sending a copy of his newly completed synopsis of the Gospels. At a time when many modern Americans are arguing feverishly over the real significance of the nation's religious and political beginnings, such letters can be dynamite. Thomson was a committed member of a church but he still felt that there might be things in the Bible that organised Christianity hadn't grasped. But Jefferson was far more of a sceptic in religious matters. Between now and the 2012 presidential election, many pronouncements by the founding fathers--especially but not only on the subject of Christianity--will be parsed and dissected with passion by both sides.

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