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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (733619)	3/22/2006 4:04:46 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is Divine. . . . Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. " - James Wilson, U. S. Supreme Court Justice and Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution13 What you're trying to say is that the founding fathers wanted a Christian nation See, right off the bat you have your head stuck where the sun don't shine, with no understanding at all. The founders were religious men who did not want a Theocracy, nor do I, as they knew that a Christian is a Christian first and all else is built on that premise. They framed the constitution where all religions were free to practice in the USA. But Muslims did not do this....Budhists did not so this, Christian men, and some deists did this. But look at the history and progression of the USA up to now, and you will find it full of Christian men and women in our history, and so America went. From the Presidents, to congress, to the Supreme Court Justices. John Adams wrote, “The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity, let the Blackguard [scoundrel, rogue] Paine say what he will.” Also about Jefferson, whom you quoted: Some sources cite the so-called "Jefferson Bible" as evidence that Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian, but rather a Deist or, at best, a Unitarian. In this volume, published in 1820, Jefferson used excerpts from the New Testaments in four languages to create parallel columns of text recounting the life of Jesus, preserving what he considered to be Christ's authentic actions and statements, eliminating the mysterious and miraculous. He began his account with Luke's second chapter, deleting the first in which the angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would give birth to the Messiah by the Holy Spirit. ... Jefferson deleted the part of the birth story in which the angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds. The text ends with the crucifixion and burial and omits any resurrection appearance.14 However ... "Jefferson's own words explained that his intent for that book was not for it to be a "Bible," but rather for it to be a primer for the Indians on the teachings of Christ (which is why Jefferson titled that work, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth"). What Jefferson did was to take the "red letter" portions of the New Testament and publish these teachings in order to introduce the Indians to Christian morality. And as President of the United States, Jefferson negotiated treaties with the Kaskaskia, Cherokee, and Wyandotte tribes wherein he provided-at the government's expense-Christian missionaries to the Indians. In fact, Jefferson himself declared, "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." While many might question this claim, the fact remains that Jefferson called himself a Christian, not a deist.