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![]() "Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "C J Campbell" wrote: By those who, like Dan Luke, want to portray Jefferson as godless in order to further their own political agenda of excluding religious views from the political forum. I certainly would never claim Jefferson was godless. Rather, my point was that he would not pass the test for religious correctness of the religious right, whose political agenda is to enlist government in proselytizing their views. -- Quite...just as they take the phrase "separation of church and state" as though it's something from contemporary times rather than from the pen of James Madison, they guy who essentially WROTE the Constitution. |
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![]() "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... "Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "C J Campbell" wrote: By those who, like Dan Luke, want to portray Jefferson as godless in order to further their own political agenda of excluding religious views from the political forum. I certainly would never claim Jefferson was godless. Rather, my point was that he would not pass the test for religious correctness of the religious right, whose political agenda is to enlist government in proselytizing their views. -- Quite...just as they take the phrase "separation of church and state" as though it's something from contemporary times rather than from the pen of James Madison, they guy who essentially WROTE the Constitution. Yes, but they did not make it part of the Constitution, did they? Read the Federalist papers. There was quite a bit of debate about it, and Madison lost. |
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Tom Sixkiller wrote:
"Dan Luke" wrote in message ... "C J Campbell" wrote: By those who, like Dan Luke, want to portray Jefferson as godless in order to further their own political agenda of excluding religious views from the political forum. I certainly would never claim Jefferson was godless. Rather, my point was that he would not pass the test for religious correctness of the religious right, whose political agenda is to enlist government in proselytizing their views. -- Quite...just as they take the phrase "separation of church and state" as though it's something from contemporary times rather than from the pen of James Madison, they guy who essentially WROTE the Constitution. If he wrote the Constitution, why didn't he include this phraseology? Could it be that it was simply HIS opinion and not generally shared by the group that in the end approved the wording of our Constitution? Many contributed to the wording either through writing it with their own hand or through the debates that edited the final wording. You better go back and read some more history so that you learn not to take one man's opinion as being representative of all. Matt |
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