You fail to understand the problem at hand.
I understand that you have a problem with religion and a big ax to grind.
As to the Washington quote it embodies all that is repugnant to a free people.
"...that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government...."
The D. of I. says otherwise.
law.indiana.edu
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... |
