When quoting Thomas Jefferson..
Posted on: June 19, 2011 - 1:37pm
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When quoting Thomas Jefferson..
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Apparently this group is down the street from me. I like how they quote Jefferson.
Faith is the word but next to that snugged up closely "lie's" the want.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in god, in none."-Charlie Chaplin
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I like how they are against socialism and health care, but it is ok for them to get tax deductions for churches and they can be political - socialized religion.
Religion Kills !!!
Numbers 31:17-18 - Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
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I am sure it is full of quotes criticizing religion, NOT!
What a buch of theocratic dickheads.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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If even half the people who throw around Thomas Jefferson quotes actually shared the mans political ideology our current government wouldn't exist. He is often cherry picked for quotes to back up political arguments even though if he were alive today he would be scorned as an extreme radical and if he ran for office he would be lucky to get 1% of the vote. The man was a fucking genius, if only we were smart enough to learn from his wisdom.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
There is not much I agree with you on. But you are right. You might make a case that other founders had more religious views, but they knew those were a private matter. Most of them were deists and many Freemasons which would hardly be a standard for the Falwell types today.
Jefferson was the most insistent on a "wall" between church and state. He could hardly be painted as a right winger as far as religion and would, if alive today, WOULD reject the current republican party's stance on religion and government.
He was a flaming liberal for his time and the most responsible for the first Amendment. Madison wrote it, but it was modeled after Jefferson's Virgina Religious Freedom act.
These cowards who misquote him want so badly to destroy what he set up.
You know the irony of it all, Jefferson didn't sign the Constitution. I believe he was in France at the time acting as a diplomat.
What gets me about these ass hats, is if the founders wanted Jesus to be so intermingled with government where all others are mere guests, then it would have been easy to mention Christianity by name and Jesus in the oath of office in the Constitution.
But yet we have in the Constitution in no mention of Jesus or Christianity. And on top of that "make no law respecting the establishment of religion" and "No Religious test" in the requirements to the oath of office, and even the Barbary Treaty article 11 signed by the entire congress and president John Adams without any dissent.
And considering how much he valued science, even though he was a deist, I have no doubt, if he were alive today, he would have scrapped any semblance of woo he had back then.
He said in several letters that questioning religion was good. That being an atheist was ok, and HATED pulpit politics.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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EXACTLY !!!
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno
Well said Brian.
“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno
I started to quote some Jefferson on their FB page but I actually sorta know a few of them in the group and I don't want my house burned down or something so I removed it.
People in this community might lynch a non-believer.
If what the judge did was to simply say the kid couldn't say a prayer at graduation I think he is breaking the law.
If however he was saying the school could not endorse it he is within the law.
Suprises me though that a Texas Judge would be against anything to do with religion at all.
Faith is the word but next to that snugged up closely "lie's" the want.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in god, in none."-Charlie Chaplin
That is a "wink wink" loophole theist use. The assholes who say, "the school isn't endorsing it" are the same school employees and city council who go to church every sunday and " wink wink" at the students knowing most parents sell jesus to their kid.
The judge saw what was clearly a state setting being used to promote religion. It is bullshit to lie about it.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
Check out my poetry here on Rational Responders Like my poetry thread on Facebook under Brian James Rational Poet, @Brianrrs37 on Twitter and my blog at www.brianjamesrationalpoet.blog
If this is the same type of "moral decline" that I supect it is (certain forms of sexuality between cons. adults, abortion, euthanasia), then "moral decline" is almost my primary specialty. A shame, as the remainder of the group's aims are sublime.
“A meritocratic society is one in which inequalities of wealth and social position solely reflect the unequal distribution of merit or skills amongst human beings, or are based upon factors beyond human control, for example luck or chance. Such a society is socially just because individuals are judged not by their gender, the colour of their skin or their religion, but according to their talents and willingness to work, or on what Martin Luther King called 'the content of their character'. By extension, social equality is unjust because it treats unequal individuals equally.” "Political Ideologies" by Andrew Heywood (2003)
Their "moral decline" seems to be another way to say "religious decline". They might be hopping mad and willing to beat you with a bible untill you believe it...or some Thomas Jefferson quotes lol.
Faith is the word but next to that snugged up closely "lie's" the want.
"By simple common sense I don't believe in god, in none."-Charlie Chaplin