"But let's try a little Jefferson:"
Are you denying that Thomas Jefferson, among other members of the Virginia house of Burgesses, submitted a resolution calling for June 1 to be set aside as a day of fasting before God?
Would you refute the fact that Jefferson wrote to the king of England begging him to acknowledge the colonists rights...."rights which God and the laws have been given equally and independently to all?" ....."The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy (talking about the king) but cannot disjoin them. Thomas Jefferson: A Summary View of the Rights or British America. The Annals of America Vol 2
How about this letter addressing The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. "Whereas Almighty God has created the mind free, so that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure for the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who, being lord both of body and mind,...
James just what religion do you think this man is alluding to in these letters?
Chris
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