Blatherskite

I discovered the other day that WordPress 1.5 has been released and so I upgraded my blog, Blacksheep to it. So far I’m loving it. It has a “static pages” function which I’m using to create a project gallery. Very cool. And it has some really good comment spamifiers, which will be utilized, for sure.

I haven’t posted all week and I don’t really know why. I guess I’ve been busy with updating Blacksheep.

I am reading this excellent article in the Nation about how our founding fathers were not Christian and how our country is not, neccessarily based on Christian priniciples, but rather Enlightenment principles. Our founding fathers were students of the Enlightenment. If you are interested in reading the article it is in the February 21, 2005 Nation. …Here is the article online. I highly recommend this article.

I love history and I read lots of it. I have read in numerous history books that our founding fathers were not Christian. Rather, many of them were Deist. I don’t know where Christian Fundamentalists get that our country “was founded on Christian principles.” When I was a Christian, this lie was propagated among Christians, and this was years ago.

This is a subject that I find fascinating and this article is sparking me to do more research on it, so you will probably see me write about it in the future.

Have a good evening 🙂