I am not at all referring to "Religion"; rather, "Ideology". --- ideology, eh ... like zionism?
With regard to "Delusion(s)"; I suggest that you read, study and maybe get a bit more familiar with our 3rd President; his philosophy and his writings...... -- I have read more about Jefferson because of his stance against religious persecution by xians and his views on the US interventionist policy. Two things that your klan advocates. [image: Jefferson Quote] President Thomas Jefferson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson> extended Washington's ideas about foreign policy in his March 4, 1801 inaugural address <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_inauguration>. Jefferson said that one of the "essential principles of our government" is that of "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."[5] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism#cite_note-JeffersonFirstInaugText-5> http://thefederalist.com/2013/09/23/thomas-jefferson-the-original-isolationist/ " Puritans expelled dissenters from their colonies, a fate that in 1636 befell Roger Williams and in 1638 Anne Hutchinson, America's first major female religious leader. Those who defied the Puritans by persistently returning to their jurisdictions risked capital punishment, a penalty imposed on four Quakers between 1659 and 1661. Reflecting on the seventeenth century's intolerance, Thomas Jefferson was unwilling to concede to Virginians any moral superiority to the Puritans. Beginning in 1659 Virginia enacted anti-Quaker laws, including the death penalty for refractory Quakers. Jefferson surmised that "if no capital execution took place here, as did in New England, it was not owing to the moderation of the church, or the spirit of the legislature." The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution Expelled from Massachusetts in the dead of winter in 1636, former Puritan leader Roger Williams (1603-1683) issued an impassioned plea for freedom of conscience. He wrote, "God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state; which inforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civill Warre, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls." Williams later founded Rhode Island on the principle of religious freedom. He welcomed people of every shade of religious belief, even some regarded as dangerously misguided, for nothing could change his view that "forced worship stinks in God's nostrils." <https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/images/vc006475.jpg> *The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for cause of Conscience, discussed in a Conference between Truth and Peace. . . .* Roger Williams, 1644. Rare Book and Special Collections Division <https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/>, Library of Congress (19) Bookmark this item: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html#obj019 Execution of Quakers Mary Dyer (d. 1660) first ran afoul of Massachusetts authorities for supporting theological dissenter Anne Hutchinson. As a result Dyer and her family were forced to move to Rhode Island in 1638. Converted to Quakerism in England in the 1650s, Dyer returned to New England and was three times arrested and banished from Massachusetts for spreading Quaker principles. Returning to Massachusetts a fourth time, she was hanged on June 1, 1660. <https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/images/vc006367.jpg> *Mary Dyer led to execution on Boston Common, 1 June 1660*. Color engraving. Copyprint Nineteenth Century. Courtesy of The Granger Collection, New York (20) Bookmark this item: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html#obj020 Intolerance in Virginia In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson reflected on the religious intolerance in seventeenth-century Virginia, specifically on the anti-Quaker laws passed by the Virginia Assembly from 1659 onward. Jefferson apparently believed that it was no more than an historical accident that Quakers had not been physically punished or even executed in Virginia as they had been in Massachusetts. <https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/images/vc006518.jpg> *Notes on the State of Virginia*. [left page] [right page <https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/images/vc006519.jpg>] Thomas Jefferson. New York: M. L. and W. A. Davis, 1801. Rare Book and Special Collections Division <https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/>, Library of Congress (21) Bookmark this item: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html#obj021 Back to top <https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01-2.html#skip_menu> On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 4:20:50 PM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > One day, I hope you'll "Get It" and catch on...Just like Jefferson, I am > not at all referring to "Religion"; rather, "Ideology". > > With regard to "Delusion(s)"; I suggest that you read, study and maybe > get a bit more familiar with our 3rd President; his philosophy and his > writings...... > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:15 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Opinion and delusion noted ... Not shared ... as he was against religious >> persecution. >> >> -- >> -- >> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >> >> * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ >> * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. >> * Read the latest breaking news, and more. >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "PoliticalForum" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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