"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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> "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 if you were to stretch your tiny braincells, it would dawn on you, as it
has dawned on everyone else, that President Jefferson picked and chose the
doctrines of Jesus that *he* agreed with, and put them in a little book of
his own. He did NOT follow Christianity as you do.
A "real" Christian does not spread hate. A "real" Christian does not spread
racism, against any gender, creed, or culture. Yes, Jefferson was a "real"
Christian; he followed the doctrines as Jesus *first* preached them, before
Paul came along and added his slanted views to them.
> > ===
> > 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
It does not matter how much you shout CHRISTIAN! at anyone, JK. The facts
of the matter, as I have abundantly posted - with credible references - is
this country was not a Christian nation. It wasn't till the 1950's that
"under God" and similar phrases crept into the language defining this
country. Up till then, they did NOT exist.
Go ahead and keep on ignoring the facts, John. Here, take the red pill now,
that's a boy.
The Shadow Dancer
