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In response to Answers posted by BrianTubbs:
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Well, we see how a person's agenda can affect their understanding of reality.
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I am sure that your interpretations are wrong. The way you make it look would cause us to believe that the Founders were Evangelicals out to prove something about God. In other words, the founding of America was all about proving the existence of God as far as you're concerned. It just doesn't work when it's put in the context of the American Revolution and the reason why Jefferson wrote the Declaration in the first place--it was all about personal sovereignty and the inalienable/unalienable rights. It is what we have come to know as self determination. The purpose of the reference to the Creator as the one that endowed those rights is all about the fact that the rights exist prior to society's influence. I don't see how you can get that so wrong.
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The only explanation I can come up with for your position is that you are working on an agenda as your explanation is tangent from the Declaration itself.
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Can you give me any academic references in support of your position?
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I do know that the Founders were concerned with too definite a reference to a specific identity for god and that they settled on the word, Creator.

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