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To: valkyry1
[A document you pick and choose out of as is convenient for for you and in that way you distort his works.]
 
Distort his [Jefferson's] works?
"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
 
"the insertion [of Jesus Christ] was rejected by the great majority"
 
Who's the historical Revisionist - Thomas Jefferson in his own Autobiography - or the religionists down in Texas pretending the founders intended this to be a "christian nation"; and shoving their coercive dogma down the throats the public via government curriculum?

154 posted on 06/09/2010 6:21:16 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill

So what is it with your obsession with this one paper of his. Was it ever made into Virgina law? Was it ever made into law or part of a state or nations founding documents anywhere?

Texas?? Why are bringing Texas up. Texas was not even a state until 1948, and why are you changing the topic to historical revisionism. Free association does equal a cogent argument.

Why dont you read that last paragraph of yours out loud back to yourself


155 posted on 06/09/2010 6:42:55 PM PDT by valkyry1
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