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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (14734)	3/2/2003 4:17:45 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

The men who wrote the Constitution believed that religion and government should be kept separate I assure you, those words are neither from the Constitution nor its amendments. Jefferson did write about that "wall of separation", though. Believing with you 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 the 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. w3.trib.com Oh, I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessings of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you and your religious association, assurances of my high respect and esteem. That doesn't seem to square well with X's argument that Jefferson was an atheist or agnostic. But still: Isn't this war about oil rather than religion? I though that was the Peacenik Party line.