Thursday Notes

CT editorial on political priorities:
"The not-so-subtle equation of America's founding with biblical Christianity has been shown time and again to be historically inaccurate. The founding was a unique combination of biblical teaching and Enlightenment rationalism, and most of the founding fathers, as historian Edwin Gaustad, among many others, has noted, were not orthodox Christians, but instead were primarily products of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment, we should recall, has never been much of a friend of biblical Christianity."

My apologies for the goofiness in the formatting. Blogger just started doing it -- for no apparent reason. When I have more time I'll fiddle with it.