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	<title>Benjamin Franklin &#8211; Warren Throckmorton</title>
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		<title>The Franklin Prayer Myth that Refuses to Die: The Liberty Counsel Edition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Warren Throckmorton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have come to believe that some historical myths will never die. In this Liberty Counsel edition, Mat Staver and Matt Barber reinforce their mutual misunderstanding of this story, making the delegates to the Constitutional Convention prayer warriors. As I have documented previously, Franklin proposed daily prayers but the Convention delegates did not vote favorably&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Historian Thomas Kidd on Deism During the Founding Era</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Warren Throckmorton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This brief primer by Thomas Kidd in how deism was understood during the founding era is well worth reading. Kidd cuts through the fog often generated by Christian nationalists (e.g., David Barton) and the new atheists regarding the religious beliefs of the founders. A brief sample: So what was deism? In spite of all its&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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