From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 16:53:17 MDT
John K Clark wrote:
>
> (Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com>):
>
> >Even the most liberal of the founders were believers. Franklin
> >was a Quaker
>
> But not a very good one. From Franklin's letter to Ezra Stiles
> on 9 March 1790:
>
> "I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some
> doubts as to his [Jesus] divinity; though it is a question I do not
> dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless
> to busy myself with it now"
THere are many protestant sects which do not accept the divinity of
jesus. The alleged divinity of the guy has been probably THE major bone
of contention among christian sects since before the Council of Nicea.
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