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Jonathan Rowe

  • Senior Feature and Editorial, SPIN
Brooklyn
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Over the years I've noticed claims of "accidental" influences on the American founding. What does that mean? Influences that they rarely if ever cited, but who somehow deserve credit for their ideas, nonetheless. Here are a few examples: 1. Thomas Hobbes. America's founders almost never positively cited him, and often negatively did. John Locke was no "accidental" influence, but to the contrary. He was arguably the most cited philosopher.
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When I first started blogging on the issue of the political-theology of the American founding many years ago, I grappled with the notion that blasphemy laws continued to exist in the United States under its constitutional order.
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Catholics Persecuted Protestants; Protestants Persecuted Catholics; and Protestants Persecuted One Another. The different sects disagreed with one another. But it went beyond mere disagreement. America's founders were acutely aware of the history of religious conflict that occurred after the Protestant reformation. The "political-theological problem," recent in their historical memory, that America's founders wished to transcend.
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