You exclusive scoundrels!!

Two things: lame title, I know; and I’m back, and I hope I am back for good now. Those things being said, here we go!

Today I stumbled upon several blog articles which argued the Founding Fathers of America were predominately Christians. Whether or not this is true is a matter for another post; instead, I wish to discuss one of the common argument tactics used by the advocates of “Christian founders.” In order to bring the majority of the founders into the Christian camp, the essential undeniable doctrines of the Christian faith are reduced to an affirmation that Jesus is the Messiah, and he will return to judge the living and the dead; and men must believe that he is the messiah in order to be saved. All other defining and exclusive doctrines are rejected as being necessary to believe in order to be identified as a Christian. I routinely noticed that the importance and essential character of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is rejected with a result that the necessity of a specific definition of God is denied. This is simply madness. Moreover, specific definitions for words such as messiah are simply absent so that even the essentials are vacuous. As a result of this vagueness, I found blog authors who were unwilling to exclude Mormons, Unitarians and Arians from the Christian camp.

Time runs short, so I must conclude shortly; therefore, I think we ought to end with the simple question of whether this reductionistic argument is accurate, pious or an accurate confession of the Christian faith. I answer: neque verum neque pium est.