Religious organizations in the USA asking their members to donate to deist organizations ...

Boojatta

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Wed Sep-07-11 10:21 PM
Original message

Religious organizations in the USA asking their members to donate to deist organizations ...

Edited on Wed Sep-07-11 10:22 PM by Boojatta

Has it ever happened? Might it happen?

Don't Mormons, Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others owe a debt of gratitude to the organizational efforts of deists who helped create, in the 1700s, a safe haven for alternatives to the various TC ("theologically correct") options of old Europe?

Perhaps we need a new term: LPTC (Legal-Political-Theological Correctness).

I suspect that, in trying to determine what is theologically correct for a given legal/political jurisdiction at a given time in world history, various legal and political issues (and not merely theological issues) will arise.

Refresh | 0 Recommendations

Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

LAGC

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Thu Sep-08-11 04:26 AM
Response to Original message

1. I think the deists have been thrown under the bus by most contemporary X-ian organizations

Right-wing revisionist history states that all the Founding Fathers were bona fide Christians, of course, as its inconceivable they may have believed in a Creator without the Jesus juju to go along with it.

Of course, then there's fakers like Glenn Beck who pretend to be deists in public, as it wouldn't be politically correct to draw more attention to the seedier parts of his faith, like the "magic underwear" and "become-a-god-ruling-over-my-own-planet-when-I-die" memes.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top

DU AdBot (1000+ posts)

Fri May 03rd 2024, 09:42 AM
Response to Original message

Advertisements [?]

Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.