Reply #27: And, Orwell, dear (nice handle, that), you'll notice that Thomas Jefferson

[Peace Patriot]

VERY CAREFULLY used the phrase "THEIR Creator"--"endowed by THEIR Creator"--so as not to exclude anyone's idea of who their "Creator" is. He did not say "OUR Creator." He did not say "God." THEIR Creator. Could even be the Mother Goddess, or your parents, or your ancestors, or Allah, or the Great Spirit. Capital "C" would seem to point to the Deist belief in the common God of all religions (although they used capitals quite freely and randomly in those days). Many of the Founders were Deists (good and sick of the religious wars in Europe, I imagine--Catholics torturing Protestants, Protestants torturing Catholics). But I think "endowed by THEIR Creator" leaves ample room for everybody's beliefs.

Karen's dropping of the "their" and turning it around kind of takes the force out what Jefferson (in my opinion) was intending to do with that word.

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"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny imposed upon the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson

(--inscribed inside the rotunda around his statue, at the Jefferson Memorial, in Washington DC)