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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (508333)	12/12/2003 4:27:32 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What you fail to realize in your zeal to promote your own brand of dogma, is that the definitions of terms are different now than they are today. The FF would see many religious organizations today as despotic and corrupt with their 'leaders' hiding immorality behind false righteousness. As with many free thinkers of his time, Jefferson thought religion to be a private matter. "Jefferson absorbed this naturalism and sought to comprehend God in the laws of the universe, not doctrinal truths locked in scripture. For both Paine and Jefferson, the God in the Bible did not appeal to reason. That God required complex doctrines and priestly authority to guide in His discovery, excluding many from relating to God on a personal basis. For the reasonable person, the evidence available in creation was all that was necessary. God was not only reachable but also understandable. Based largely on Paine’s influence, Jefferson focused his critique upon such exclusivity, diligently seeking to free Christianity from the darkness." --------- You can call it by whatever name you like but these men were both free and complex thinkers and they didn't toe the current line. After all they were revolutionaries. Why would you think that revolution didn't include freedom from religious dogma? THINK