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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (733592)	3/22/2006 12:19:58 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I posted proof from a well known urban legend website. Can you point to an original source for the quote? If not, it is unsubstantiated, and therefore bogus. What you're trying to say is that the founding fathers wanted a Christian nation. Then you quoted Patrick Henry, an anti-federalist who opposed the Constitution and fought against it. I certainly understand your position; it is undefendable. The framers deliberately called for the separation of church and state because they'd seen how church could be used to manipulate the rights of others. Today, we look back through the prism of history and see the founders as a homogenous Christian lot. However, it was far from that. They looked at each other and saw vast differences in their views on religion - the gap between Shiite and Sunni Muslims today is like the gap between Catholics and Protestants, and the various sects and offshoots, back then. I doubt that Henry and Jefferson (a Deist) could have argued religion in the same room and not come to blows. "But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State." Thomas Jefferson altreligion.about.com