Understanding The Church’s Leftist Trend
…it is true they were Christians, but they were primarily sons of the Enlightenment, and they held man as an effective, potent, rational creature. The founders of our country were effective men. They believed in the effectiveness of human existence. This is in absolute defiance of historical orthodoxy. There is no way you can massage historic Augustinian-Lutheran-Calvinist orthodoxy into rational, competent, successful men. It’s not possible. The practical outworking is in the United States man’s exposure to the Dark Ages was directly centered around the Puritan doctrine, and it was that same Puritan doctrine that the Founding Fathers made an overt effort to separate from government and, in many instances, to defeat.
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