As I put together my religious ideas for my ideal church, the natural church, I find that I have most of what I need. The religious foundation is Deism–an organizational acceptance of God, but not divine revelation. In the natural church the moral foundation is love moderated by ethics–do no harm to others, in [...]
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Archive for March, 2009
The Meaning of “All Men are Created Equal”
Posted in March 27th, 2009
Did you ever really think about what the Founders intended when they said “all men are created equal?” I had some guesses about what they meant, but I wanted to know for sure, so I dug a little deeper and get to the truth of the matter. The words seem to have originated with Philip [...]
The Origin and Meaning of “the Pursuit of Happiness”
Posted in March 24th, 2009
In an earlier draft of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson used the phrase “life, liberty and property.” During editing this was changed to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Jefferson’s intellectual heroes were Newton, Bacon, and Locke. He most likely found this passage in Locke’s 1690 essay Concerning Human Understanding, which was a sort of series [...]
