of people but the minorities >> given the context in terms of religion talk about the biography is that is hijacked with that heightened religiosity than why hasn't it shifted back? so that is not so long.

but let me lay one fact about on the table. but it began right away. it after the revolution and a massive effort to christianize the founders. so you may have heard that there was demanding prayer then george west washington szeged on their knees and pray but it never happened. that is a false interpretation of a certain amendment. in the first half and it just kept coming. but the source in america

there is the perceived us sense of fragmentation that has been in the past and still are. that is how they get power and how they believe we become one it will lead exactly the same thing. those forces will continuously drive to make the founders reflect those beliefs. it comes down to basic american sociology. that is not a very good answer. i wish i had a better one. [laughter] >>. >> i was wondering if the founding philosophy of the country was based on intel.

outcome is still works as well as it does? and many people believe it is the foundation of modern society they think it works all the way round that religion did go a significant change after the revolution as a reformation and that key aspect is it turned religion into something that could be domesticated in the modern world. and moseley except religion is a private matter but that

is not a universal concept when it would not have been but that change the basic idea that religion fundamentally changed. >> why wasn't the founders compromised? why that seems to visa the when you say god is all over the documents which appears in enough of declaration is nature -- nature's god clearly nonetheless they did make frequent references to providence and wholly talk

because they believe it is necessary to motivate the troops to get the population on board so there was the element of doublespeak says jefferson writes in the preamble to the preferences of nature that some of the troops literally he paraphrases the act if you are friendlier with

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>> we have a misperception a profit invents a new religion but a profit is someone who reforms the religion and the cultural view in which he lives. jesus did not create christianity he was said to preach about today's them. blue dutch did not create do this and he was reforming hinduism and the same for the profit mohammad as the car reminds people this is not a new religions the same message given to all the profits that came before

mohammad, etc., etc.. but the profit passes ahead now is the responsibility of the followers to figure out a way of the of profit that is how it is founded and as an inmate institution requires a power structure into becomes in charge? purses the initial followers then second generation than the power structure not based on if you knew the profit or not but how much knowledge you can accumulate about the traditions, a the theology that was house by the profit in with the massive institutions of religion. if you follow that timeline it does not take a long time for individuals to start

complaining about the institution to start recognizing there is a gap between what the institution has to say and what the profit has to say and that is when you have a clash between individuals in and institutions that have all the great religious traditions of food can define face. . . . .

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