"Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
> Again, Jefferson was a deist - and just for you, here is the
>http://www.merriam-webster.com definition of deist:
>> Main Entry: de·ism
> Pronunciation: 'dE-"i-z&m, 'dA-
> Function: noun
> Usage: often capitalized
> Date: 1682
> : a movement or system of thought advocating natural religion, emphasizing
> morality, and in the 18th century denying the interference of the Creator
> with the laws of the universe
> - de·ist /'dE-ist, 'dA-/ noun, often capitalized
> - de·is·tic /dE-'is-tik, dA-/ adjective
> - de·is·ti·cal /-ti-k&l/ adjective
> - de·is·ti·cal·ly /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb
>> Jefferson was not a Christian.
Gosh, it's such a tough choice. Do I believe an infinitely STUPID feminazi
with 3 1/2 billion missing brain cells, or Mr. Thomas Jefferson, our
CHRISTIAN Founding Forefather, who created a CHRISTIAN nation from scratch?
http://christianparty.net/tjthomson.htm
The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes. Federal Edition. Collected
and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford.
Monticello, January 9, 1816.
My Dear and Ancient Friend,--An acquaintance of fifty-two years, for I think
ours dates from 1764, calls for an interchange of notice now and then, that
we remain in existence, the monuments of another age, and examples of a
friendship unaffected by the jarring elements by which we have been
surrounded, of revolutions of government, of party and of opinion. I am
reminded of this duty by the receipt, through our friend Dr. Patterson, of
your synopsis of the four Evangelists. I had procured it as soon as I saw it
advertised, and had become familiar with its use; but this copy is the more
valued as it comes from your hand. This work bears the stamp of that
accuracy which marks everything from you, and will be useful to those who,
not taking things on trust, recur for themselves to the fountain of pure
morals. I, too, have made a wee-little book from the same materials, which I
call the Philosophy of Jesus; it is a paradigma of his doctrines, made by
cutting the texts out of the book, and arranging them on the pages of a
blank book, in a certain order of time or subject. A more beautiful or
precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that
I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who call me
infidel and themselves Christians and preachers of the gospel, while they
draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its author never said nor
saw. They have compounded from the heathen mysteries a system beyond the
comprehension of man, of which the great reformer of the vicious ethics and
deism of the Jews, were he to return on earth, would not recognize one
feature. If I had time I would add to my little book the Greek, Latin and
French texts, in columns side by side. And I wish I could subjoin a
translation of Gosindi's Syntagma of the doctrines of Epicurus, which,
notwithstanding the calumnies of the Stoics and caricatures of Cicero, is
the most rational system remaining of the philosophy of the ancients, as
frugal of vicious indulgence, and fruitful of virtue as the hyperbolical
extravagances of his rival sects.
> ===
> And as for the Bill of Rights, Amendment I reads:
>> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
> prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
> or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
> petition the government for a redress of grievances.
>> Found at:
>http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html#amend
> menti
>> ===
> You are really a dumbass.
>> The Shadow Dancer
>
Shallow Dunce, for almost two centuries, the United States was a CHRISTIAN
nation, founded by CHRISTIAN Forefathers, living in a CHRISTIAN land,
surrounded now by 264 million CHRISTIANS, and it was precisely during the
time that CHRISTIAN children had the *right* to say a spoken CHRISTIAN
prayer in their government schools that we had achieved the world's highest
standard of living, bar none.
It has been SINCE jews banned CHRISTIAN children from praying to God with
CHRISTIAN school prayers (at the same time that the vast majority of the
children of the 16 million jews in the world had not been banned from school
prayer) that we plunged from 1st to 17th place in GDP per worker.
This sudden "discovery" by the "wiberal" jew "supreme court" that "congress
shall make no law ... " means "congress shall make no more than 22,000 laws
... " was NOT a welcome development, wouldn't you say?
John Knight
