Posted on 09/18/2009 9:22:24 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
If you find me having advocated the underlined phrase, please alert me.
No, the analogy was correct.
That said, I’m glad that at least you saw those replies to me as threats.
Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit is it?
Neither are the quotes twisted, nor altered. They’re verbatim.
Verify, and get back.
Several of your letters are merely examples of typical anti-Catholic bigotry, which was common among Protestants of that time. The one by Rev. Bird Wilson is merely his opinion. Probably you could find some equally strange quotes from Jerry Falwell, if you looked. And the others, for the most part, can be explained as aberrations or exaggerations, or stages through which the writers passed.
Jefferson may have been a Deist, although some of his writings suggest he was also a broad Christian. Ben Franklin may have been an atheist, or as I said, an agnostic. He seems to have been involved with the Hellfire Club when he was in England, although that could have just been an instance of sinning.
I am familiar with “natural law” theory among the early Greeks and Romans, and in fact it was not the same thing as what was passed down later and adopted into common law, although the Greeks and Romans certainly contributed to it.
So. If I looked around, no doubt I could find some texts stating that the earth was flat, but that wouldn’t really prove anything, taken out of context.
The analogy was wrong, as explained.
Only in the opinion of a troll, that would be you by the way.
Many of the quotes have nothing to do with Catholicism. They dealt with the Trinity, and the concept of God itself.
I was asking about those quotations. Why did the Founding Fathers maintain such a stance? What could have been their reason for doing so? That will suffice as an answer.
Oh, and thank you for putting the discussion back on track.
The others were desperately dodging the arguments, and trying to get me banned.
Let me ask you once again, is “OldSpice” the only FReeper ID you have ever had? Yes or no.
Private conversations would be more intimate, more faithful to held opinions, and far less influenced by bias or maintaining political correctness.
For these reasons alone, the quotations in the private letters would be more important than those from public speeches.
Case and point: Obama calls himself a Christian, i public speeches. Do you agree?
It seems that OldSpice will be unavailable for further comment.
They were succesful.
> Ayn Rand was an Atheist.
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> The prominent Founding Fathers shared her views.
Hmmmmm... Troll bait. I smell troll bait. Pommy-flavored troll bait, to be exact. I wonder what it’s doing here...?
Should I bite? Can it be possible that this Pommy Troll doesn’t know that the prominent Founding Fathers were Freemasons, and thus it was impossible for them to be Atheists?
Do we have time today to engage in a meaningless discourse with a Troll over bloody nonsense? To what end?
Where’s the trap? It’s got to be hidden around here someplace. Nobody leaves Pommy-flavored Troll Bait lying around unless there’s also a trap lying around too...
...so where is it? It must be cunningly hidden.
“posting legitimate, authentic, verifiable and cited quotations”
Road apples. A person would have to be a complete nutbar to ascribe the slightest shred of credibility to the nonsense you’ve posted.
“Cabalistic Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1,500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die..."
Wrong on both counts. Not Cabalistic and not mortal.
Just shows you education and wacko liberals were problems in Massachusetts, then as now.
Can you tell if he was a retread, some of us are curious.
I hope that image wasn’t too large for people with dial -up to load.
The numbers didn’t look so big but the size of the picture surprised me.
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