[HLPhat]

It was a narrow funnel of faith that drove our forefathers. 

 

Was it?

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

 

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 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 

"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

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=truth%20is%20great%20and%20will%20prevail%20if%20left%20to%20herself

 

[bigmak007]

Thanks, I’ll ponder the later years. But my forefather built his second log cabin over a spring to survive Indian attacks in the 1760s. (Shawnee land). His neighbor and two sons were killed in an attack. I got a vid of the teardown of our structure in the early 1990’s, but the video guy was a descendant of the neighbors home that lost father, sons, wife and daughters. Find a grave had them listed.
But then Amazon had mention of an old history journal that had a four year old boy hiding and surviving. His descendants created the 1990’s video. I wonder if we raised him.