“I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN”
—The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
—Thomas Jefferson, 1786
http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html
ETERNAL HOSTILITY?
Strong words.
To what “TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN” was Jefferson directing this hostility?
——————To what “TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN” was Jefferson directing this hostility?——————
Perhaps, the kind that will allow Hindu prayer but not Christian prayer?
Yeah, I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest Jefferson would have a big problem with that. Oh wait! Barton does too! Weird.