Re: [asa] Ken Ham Honored

Yes, Ted. That nominal Anglican with a Deist's sensibilities George
Washington, along with Jefferson, Franklin, and several others of the
founders, would be puzzled by this accolade. The revisionist history that
declares America to have been a "Christian nation" has been a movement by
the so-called Religious Right in response to the decline since the 1960s of
the Public Protestantism that dominated the public moral views throughout
most of the nation's history. It may be of interest that in the first
national census of 1790 only 10% of the population identified themselves
with any religious sect. Ham is one of the last people I would ever identify
as eligible for an award named after Washington.

Bob

On 6/27/07, Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu> wrote:
>
> Ham says, "But as we all know, America is not the Christian nation it once
> was."
>
> It never was, Ken, it never was. Rather ironic, I'd say, that he's been
> honored with an award named for someone who probably did not share his
> view
> of the Bible, and (if he were living today) would probably not have been a
> "Creationist" in Ham's sense.
>
> ted
>
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