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William Shannon wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> John Adams (1735-1826)
> 2nd President of the United States
> " As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense
> founded on the Christian religion ...."
>
> Article 11, Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States and the
> Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary.
> As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how
> has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended
> with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody
> religion that has ever existed?"
>
> Letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816
> " Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient
> Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Christian factions, above
> all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles
> after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the
> Catholic church, from the Council of Nice, and long before, to this day."
>
> To Jefferson, Dec. 3, 1813
>
> Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
> American scientist, diplomet, writer
> "I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... not holy day
> keeping, sermon hearing ... of making long prayers, filled with flatteries
> and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing
> Deity."
>
> Works, Vol. VII p.75
> "The way to see by Faith, is to shut the eye of Reason."
>
> Poor Richard, 1758
> "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
>
> Ibid.
> "If we look back into history for the character of the present sects of
> Christianity, we shall find few that have not in turns been persecutors, and
> complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution
> extremely wrong in Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first
> Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish church,
> but practiced it on the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell
> into the practice both here (England) and in New England."
>
> Ibid.
>
> Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
> 3rd President of the United States
> "Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children,
> since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined,
> imprisioned ; yet we have not advanced on inch towards uniformity. What has
> been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other
> half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth."
>
> Notes on Virginia
> "They (the christian clergy) believe that any portion of power confided to
> me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly:
> for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility to every form of
> tyranny over the mind of man.
>
> To Sr. Benjamin Rush, 1800
> "On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all
> mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling,
> fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible
> to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of
> the human mind."
>
> To Carey, 1816
>
> George Washington (1732-1799)
> 1st Elected President of the United States
> "The United States is in no manner founded on Christian principle."
>
> Treaty of Tripoli
While many of the Founding Finaglers were Deists, some were religious
Christians at different points in their lives.
What is undeniable however, is that the country is culturally
Christian.
This is now changing due to non Christian immigration and
Globalization's
need to honor (?) other cultures with which businessmen want to do
business.
For a fun read on this and other issues see...
" Legends, Lies & Myths of American History " by Richard Shenkman
Joshua2
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