--- In [email protected], "dhamiltony2k5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Turq, this is extremely wonderful, brilliant. In natural law, God > blesses in democracy those bills of rights. > > On Jefferson's tomb at Monticello in the inscription, > it mentions that he was most proud of his Virginia bill > of religious freedom...
Not to mention the quote displayed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." That quote was from a letter dealing with the attempted takeover of a school district by Christian fanatics, in which they were going to try to impose their view of what a religious education should be on everyone. The founding fathers, having the experience of England and its attempts to force one religion or another on the masses fresh in their minds, were probably more concerned with establishing a nation based on freedom *from* religion than they were freedom of religion.
