Here's a teaser:
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..." -- Treaty with Tripoli, passed unanimously by the senate,So, head on over and read the rest at http://www.anomalousdata.com.
signed by President John Adams on June 10, 1797
"No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever..." Thomas Jefferson, in the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom, 1786
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law." -- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
OH! I really like this one:
"When a Religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and, when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support [it], so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
--Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780
2 comments:
that's funny, either one of the quotes can be taken either way and not know what else was said favors the person posting the quotes. Come on I think smary people read these things!
Two corrections, 1. "...and not knowing" 2. "...I think smart"
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