Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei

It's not a matter of trusting or not trusting Mcduffie. First off, on the issue of Roger Williams that was my fault, he was a baptist preacher, just not one of the Danbury baptist preachers having been born some 200 years earlier. The article merely says Williams was a prominent baptist preacher, and he was the one who had originally talked about separation of Church and State in his sermon "The Garden in the Wilderness." My bad, misread it.

Again going off of what I said earlier Mcduffie never put anything out there except a few quick one liners regarding the actual thread, and he few posts about Atheism. All I'm saying is I could say I'm a genius on constitutional law and that I have read X amount of books proving anything you say wrong, but we both know that you would think me a douchelander if I put none of my information or facts forward. I was merely trying to tell McDuffie for the sake of discussion he might want to infer some of his knowledge, would benefit the threads and everyone reading it.

Criteria as far as judging credibility.... Well so far the only thing we have been able to assertain as far as the particular article in question goes is that the birth facts are wrong, I couldn't tell you one way or the other, I'm admittedly ignorant to the facts there. Secondly that McDuffie claims they are wrong because he has read a dozen books. And thirdly the article confusingly uses a case of Separation of Church and State in spite of it's own argument.

Me personally though, I'll read what most people have to say, once they start getting to whacky or blatantly false I stop reading. Does that help any?