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To: HiTech RedNeck
Kindly be a bit more specific.
137 posted on 06/27/2002 1:54:00 AM PDT by UncleJeff
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To: UncleJeff
(1) Look at Tom Jeff's actions. He preached a nominal Christian faith, in an official capacity. The encroachment he disagreed with was that of one flavor of Christianity upon another; to him it was beyond question that a general Christianity should continue to be preached. (2) The letter was a promise not to interfere in the Baptists' exercise of faith, not a barrier to forbid Baptists to exercise a general Christian influence in official affairs. (3) Thomas Jefferson was not exactly an expert on the context of the First Amendment in the first place; he was off in France when it was codified.

In other words you do not have a smoking gun here. Modern eyes construe the excerpt, especially out of context, quite differently from the way that Thomas Jefferson himself did.

150 posted on 06/27/2002 2:12:17 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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