As far as I can tell, the one main point of the Christian religion (the real one, not the fake one of Bush) is to take care of the least amongst us. THAT's IT. You know, if we're going to have Xmas, it should be all about THAT.
The US of A was not and never has been a Christian Country. It is a country that does not establish ANY religion. That fact has been so lost for so long that it's time it became imprinted on the minds of every single American.
---------------- Thomas Jefferson knew all about self-proclaimed interpreters and go-betweens.
"Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State (Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802). "
* The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man (Letter to J. Moor, 1800)
* The clergy...believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion (Letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800)
* History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes (Letter to von Humboldt, 1813)
* In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own (Letter to H. Spafford, 1814).
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======= You know, it's interesting to read his words. Considering how old they are, I wonder how many Red Republicans could read and comprehend them.
Yep, it's MOB RULE which is another thing the FFs were really worried about. |
