Monday, July 02, 2012

WE KNOW THAT MADISON AND JEFFERSON WEREN'T FUNDIES

and according to a study of John Adams by C. Bradley Thompson, our 2nd President also wasn't a Fundie:
Ultimately, according to Adams, it is by examining the "Constitution of our Minds and Bodies" rather than through "supernatural Revelation" that we come to know our rights and moral obligations.35 Such a premise or strategy—starting with man rather than with God—demonstrates how far Adams had ventured into the rational humanism of his age.
The footnote [35] refers to Adam's Diary and Autobiography, 1:42.

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