Occasional ritual references to a non-participatory Creator, which is what Jefferson was doing (the line at the end of the Declaration about a reliance on Divine Providence wasn't even his), hardly amounts to "discussed and justified in religious terms" (what you said), let alone to "primarily activated by high religious motives" (what I said).
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Date: 2008-07-15 09:52 pm (UTC)