In the editor: Shock, I find myself in accordance with a writer Josh Hammer (“American revolution from the individual, but from the Bible,” July 3). I am an atheist who carries the card from the age of 17, but it is easy to claim that my moral and values are almost based on Jewish-Christian religion.
However, it does not mean that I need to celebrate the Bible in the fourth July. Hammer acknowledged that the founders were “intellectual hetodox” without teaching that it was one of the mymists with them, Thomas Jefferson, forced to separate Church and State as a doctrine doctrinal. Likewise, he rejected the third dictatorships in the world and the Chinese government for their moral indiscretions who did not recognize our own support of American citizens, the destruction of Japanese war.
All that says, it’s really because I don’t have to celebrate the Bible that I am a proud American.
Maurice Smith, Carpinteria
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In the editor: The hammer ignores the fact that our fathers who have hated the way in the way in which religious religions in Europe distort the Bible’s message and destroy different translations. This is the history that forces them and even an Anglican Minister, Roger Williams, strongly promoted to establish and maintain a wall separation between Church and State. In freshness, without secularism, the variation of religious beliefs cannot survive.
To the extent that there would have been biblical influences on our country’s founders, it is more likely to be located in the humanistic citations such as Leviticus 19:34, Exodus 23:35 and 1 Peter 4: 9 Than the Hammer’s referring to Genesis 1:27.
Sheldon H. Kardener, Santa Monica
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In the editor: This is a bad historian who cannot recognize the difference in correlation and cause, which is the case with Martmer’s new column. Thomas Jefferson, and John Locke in front of him, does not think that the same person is analyzing people in his natural conditions and found the common denominator in his natural conditions in his natural conditions in his natural condition and found the Denominator is common in his natural condition in his natural conditions in his natural condition and found common denominator in his natural condition in his natural conditions in his natural condition and found the common denominator of human dignity and liberty. Jews and Christians can celebrate that Bible anthropology is in harmony with conclusions, but it does not matter to them.
We do not rewrite history. The American and Republic Revolution is based on reasoning, not revelation. It’s math, not mysticism.
Bruce Dickey, Costa Mesa
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In the editor: As Martmer forces the moral prompting of our freedom declaration came from the Bible, as he forgot to, among other raging incongruities, the Bible apparently was no problem with slavery. While the same is said for those who set the fathers, eventually our country has its problem.
William P. Bekkala, West Hollywood
