Today is the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. The Equinox is the equal amount of day and night due to the tilt of the Earth's axis which puts the Sun in the same plane as our Earth's equator. So our fellow Deists living on the equator won't notice much difference!
The Equinox reminds us of the truth to this statement about the Creation being the only true word of God which Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason: "It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they may be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the Earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God."
Enjoy your spring or autumn Equinox!
Progress! Bob Johnson
http://www.deism.com
Posted By: Adam Fate
Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 at 10:00AM
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