"Christian Country" my ass !!!
Famous Americans and one Roman Pagan said the following:
1. "While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us." - James Madison
2. "Neither religion nor liberty can long subsist in the tumult of altercation and amidst the noise and violence of faction." - Samuel Adams
3. "I hate polemical (hostile) politics and polemical divinity." - John Adams
4. "the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion..." - In a treaty with the Muslim nation of Tripoli initiated by Washington, completed by John Adams, and ratified by the Senate in 1797, the Founding Father of the U.S. so declared this.
5. "As to Jesus of Nazareth ...I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have...some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble." - Benjamin Franklin
6. "I do not worry whether or not God is on my side; I worry that I am on God's side." - Abraham Lincoln
7. "Let every man speak freely without fear, maintain the principles that he believes, worship according to his own faith, either one God, three Gods, no Gods, or twenty Gods; and let government protect him in doing so."
- John Leland, a Baptist evangelist who worked with Jefferson and Madison to secure religions freedom in Virginia.
8. I never told my religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wish to change another's creed. I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives." - Thomas Jefferson
9. He believed that a separation of church and state was necessary to protect the church, because the ambitions and vices of men could pervert the church, turning faith into a means of temporal (secular) power.
- Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island
10. "When a religion is good, I perceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support [it]. so that its [believers] are obligated to call for the help of a civil power, it is a sign ...of its being a bad one." - Benjamin Franklin
11. "I write with freedom, because, while I claim a right to believe in one God, I yield as freely to other that of believing in three. Both religions, I find, make honest men, and that is the only point society has any right to look to." - Thomas Jefferson
12. Every man is acocuntable to God alone for his religions opinions, and ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience." - George Washington
13. On the Great Seal of the United States appear the words, "Annuit Coeptis" or "Providence has favored our undertaking." Name the phrase's source. - Virgil, in Georgics
14. "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my legs." - Thomas Jefferson
1. "While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us." - James Madison
2. "Neither religion nor liberty can long subsist in the tumult of altercation and amidst the noise and violence of faction." - Samuel Adams
3. "I hate polemical (hostile) politics and polemical divinity." - John Adams
4. "the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion..." - In a treaty with the Muslim nation of Tripoli initiated by Washington, completed by John Adams, and ratified by the Senate in 1797, the Founding Father of the U.S. so declared this.
5. "As to Jesus of Nazareth ...I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have...some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble." - Benjamin Franklin
6. "I do not worry whether or not God is on my side; I worry that I am on God's side." - Abraham Lincoln
7. "Let every man speak freely without fear, maintain the principles that he believes, worship according to his own faith, either one God, three Gods, no Gods, or twenty Gods; and let government protect him in doing so."
- John Leland, a Baptist evangelist who worked with Jefferson and Madison to secure religions freedom in Virginia.
8. I never told my religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wish to change another's creed. I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives." - Thomas Jefferson
9. He believed that a separation of church and state was necessary to protect the church, because the ambitions and vices of men could pervert the church, turning faith into a means of temporal (secular) power.
- Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island
10. "When a religion is good, I perceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support [it]. so that its [believers] are obligated to call for the help of a civil power, it is a sign ...of its being a bad one." - Benjamin Franklin
11. "I write with freedom, because, while I claim a right to believe in one God, I yield as freely to other that of believing in three. Both religions, I find, make honest men, and that is the only point society has any right to look to." - Thomas Jefferson
12. Every man is acocuntable to God alone for his religions opinions, and ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience." - George Washington
13. On the Great Seal of the United States appear the words, "Annuit Coeptis" or "Providence has favored our undertaking." Name the phrase's source. - Virgil, in Georgics
14. "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my legs." - Thomas Jefferson
1 Comments:
Hi Tom,
I really appreciated this one. I know that you and I share the same views about religion. Sondra
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