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Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (30232)	4/25/2000 4:43:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Tell you what. I'll give you Franklin (for now). But let's try a little Jefferson: Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. -- Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must approve the homage of reason rather than of blind-folded fear. Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences.... If it end in a belief that there is no god, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others it will procure for you. -- Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 10 Aug. 1787. (original capitalization of "god" retained) The law for religious freedom ... [has] put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. -- Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. 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. -- Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1813 The hocus-pocus phantasy of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs. -- Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson s Works, Vol. IV, 360, Randolph's ed. The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. -- Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Works, Vol. IV, p. 365, Randolph's ed.