Posted on 07/04/2006 1:47:46 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
"Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day. Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before."
--John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States (1825-1829).
Wow, what a strong statement! I'd bet that if he were to say this today, impeachment proceedings would begin immediately.
Post it at DU.com and say it was a quote from a prominent conservative and watch them go off on a diatribe about how the Dominionist Christians of the evil right wing want to establish a theocracy, and how Bush will implement this scheme.
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