Comments on: Faith in America http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/10/22/in-the-magazine/trends-and-opinions/faith-america.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=faith-america Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Tom Van Dyke http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/10/22/in-the-magazine/trends-and-opinions/faith-america.html/comment-page-1#comment-3050 Tom Van Dyke Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:58:02 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=12242#comment-3050 This article unfortunately commits several factual errors about the American Founding and may leave a false impression with the readers of The Saturday Evening Post about the role of religious belief in the American Founding.

Author Jack Feerick’s first factual error is a whopper:

The Declaration of Independence, then, served not just as the founding document of the American Revolution, but as a balance of the influences of the Founders and the average citizen. It asserted our unalienable rights, endowed by our Creator. But this truth was not handed down in a mystical vision; rather it was self-evident, revealed by rational observation.

The declaration makes no further mention of God.

Oy.

Read more at http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2009/11/once-upon-time-saturday-evening-post.html

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