Are you even aware that they were the response to the very first "red scare" in our history?
Don't be insulting. I know exactly why the acts were passed.
So do you believe if people are frightened enough, the Constitution becomes moot?
Do you regard Senator McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover as potential tyrants as well for their opposition to subversion?
Just because Jefferson detested the politicalization of the church didn't mean he wasn't a Christian.
Jefferson's own definition as you have quoted it defines "chr*stianity" as adherence to the ethical concepts taught by J*sus rather than to any dogmatic religion. This is the same "chr*stianity" of the National and World Council of Churches, Barak Obama, and ever liberal chr*stian.
Does your religion reduce to rationalistic ethics as well?
LOL! We're talking about the Founders, NOT McCarthy and Hoover.
Stop trying to change the subject and answer the question.
So do you believe if people are frightened enough, the Constitution becomes moot?
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Jefferson's own definition as you have quoted it defines "chr*stianity" as adherence to the ethical concepts taught by J*sus rather than to any dogmatic religion.
If a dogmatic religion was used as a cudgel to rob and beat the masses into submission, would that be okay with you as long as it met your personal standard of 'purity'?
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Does your religion reduce to rationalistic ethics as well?
'Rationalization' is a subjective term.
Does you religion allow you to pass judgment on the beliefs of others?
Jefferson’s own definition as you have quoted it defines “chr*stianity” as adherence to the ethical concepts taught by J*sus rather than to any dogmatic religion. This is the same “chr*stianity” of the National and World Council of Churches, Barak Obama, and ever liberal chr*stian.
Really? It seems like a rephrasing of the latter half of James’s (1:27) comment on God’s view of religion:
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
Or am I misreading the quote? (If so, howso?)
Also, this verse seems to indicate that ‘religious’ ‘traditions’ are of no value in God’s sight; indeed, Jesus himself was harshly critical of ‘tradition’: “[...] And you reject the word of God for the traditions that you deliver, and many things like these you do.” (Mark 7:13, Aramaic Bible in Plain English)