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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Sam who wrote (168078)8/6/2011 11:13:08 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 543687
 
I've seen arguments before based on private writings attributed to Madison or Jefferson and frankly, they're irrelevant. The constitution was adopted by a constitutional convention in assembly, not by one or two private individuals basing it only on their own personal opinion. What counts is the text the constitutional convention adopted, not any one founding fathers personal opinion.

As to those two FF's, they like all other early Presidents regularly issued proclamations of prayer days ... much as Rick Perry recently did. They had congressional chaplains then and they still do. Jefferson and Madison regularly attended Sunday church services in Congress when they were President. The idea that the FF's intended to establish a secular society that forbade religious expression just isn't well established.

If you had grown up in a culture that was dominated by a religion that was different from your own, and, indeed, by a religion that had for more than a thousand years perpetrated discrimination and much worse against your religion, perhaps you would be less sanguine about having to listen to their prayers in public places

I don't know if you're talking about yourself. Are you saying you bear an historical grudge against Christianity?
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