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Twelve deists and an anarchist

[My theology doesn't have a name, the best I can come up with is deist... and it sure looks like I'm in good company] There's been much talk lately about Michael Newdow, a Californian atheist who has fought a series of legal battles seeking to bar religious references from American public life suing to remove the phrase " In God We Trust " from U.S. money and coins. No doubt this latest battle over how much GOD we want in our government will take a long time to be resolved, but before we really get started, let's consider this: The first six and four later Presidents of the United States had strong deistic or allied beliefs. Deism (the belief, based solely on reason, in a God who created the universe and then abandoned it, assuming no control over life, exerting no influence on natural phenomena, and giving no supernatural revelation) was championed by Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Thom