Stop cherrypicking and chopping up quotes from the Founding Fathers to support your fundamentalist tripe. I'm extremely pleased that you referred JJanowiak to "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson." I actually have read many of Thomas Jefferson's writings (not just skimmed them for tidbits that support my beliefs). With that being said, I would like to provide you some WHOLE quotations from one of our most brilliant founders:
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent." -Letter to Francis Hopkinson
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes." -Letter to Alexander Von Humboldt
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." -Letter to Thomas Cooper
"Priests...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. " -Letter to Correa de Serra
Now, mesocyclone, does that sound like someone who believes that elected officials must subscribe to the Judeo-Christian worldview?
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Mesocylone,
Stop cherrypicking and chopping up quotes from the Founding Fathers to support your fundamentalist tripe. I'm extremely pleased that you referred JJanowiak to "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson." I actually have read many of Thomas Jefferson's writings (not just skimmed them for tidbits that support my beliefs). With that being said, I would like to provide you some WHOLE quotations from one of our most brilliant founders:
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."
-Letter to Francis Hopkinson
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
-Letter to Alexander Von Humboldt
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
-Letter to Thomas Cooper
"Priests...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. "
-Letter to Correa de Serra
Now, mesocyclone, does that sound like someone who believes that elected officials must subscribe to the Judeo-Christian worldview?
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