Anyone putting forward the proposition that these murdering barbarians fit into any American's (Founding Fathers or otherwise) concept of religion is clearly several sandwiches shy of a picnic.
Anyone putting forward the proposition that these murdering barbarians fit into any American's (Founding Fathers or otherwise) concept of religion is clearly several sandwiches shy of a picnic.Thomas Jefferson, speaking of Virginia's Act of Religious Freedom:
“...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, ‘Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,’ which was rejected ‘By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.’”
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
-Treaty with Tripol signed in 1976, proclaimed in 1797.
-Eric
NO one is even close to doing that........especially not me.
There are those, however, who want every member of Islam wiped off the face of the earth and driven out of America, and advocate bombing women and children, and it was to those people that I made my statement.