Reply #70: Sure.,,,,, of course,,,

[Dorian Gray]

but that argument was the same that some made about Hitler and the Catholic Church (and not disavowing his Christianity, either, with that statement. I do believe he fell away from the Catholic Church, however). Look, I know that this is imperfect. We can't definitively state what any person is, so we have to take them for their word. We only have history and their word to go by. So..... I just want to make sure that we are keeping the standards the same for the good and the bad. If we are going to claim that Hitler was Christian because of his affiliations and his (conflicted) words, then I think that we should do the same for the founding fathers. If we are going to deny Hitler's Christianity for other reasons, then we should hold the founding fathers up to the same scrutiny.

Personally, I don't really care about defining anybody as Christians or non-Christians. I do think that the standards, however, should be the same.