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To: wagglebee; metmom
[men like Jefferson...]
 

Well what did Jefferson mean when he said:
 
"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."
-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom
 
http://www.history1700s.com/etext/html/texts/jefferson/jeff1.txt
 
"insertion [of Jesus Christ] was rejected by the great majority"
 
Hmmm...
 
Quack, Waddle....  Secularist!
 
A nation of many Christians, perhaps - but a Christian Nation?  Evidently NOT.

113 posted on 06/09/2010 1:00:40 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill

Universal moral absolutes are essentially the same in every religion.

And you can go play with your intellectual self in your own room. Your lofty intellect can invent elaborate castles in the air but cannot understand the simplest of self-evident truths.


114 posted on 06/09/2010 1:07:02 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: LomanBill; wagglebee

The Declaration of Independence was not the sole work of one man.

You can debate till the cows come home about what Jefferson personally thought about God and it’s irrelevant because the others involved in the writing of the D of I knew what was meant and approved of it as it stood.

There is no doubt that the Creator to whom they were appealing who gave us our inalienable rights was the Creator found in Scripture. They didn’t live in a day of pluralism like we do.

Your tactics are those of the liberal leftists who are trying to destroy our Constitution and our government and our way of life.


115 posted on 06/09/2010 1:12:10 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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