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Thread #129849   Message #2919005
Posted By: olddude
02-Jun-10 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Labeling People when did this start
Subject: RE: BS: Labeling People when did this start
Dear Steve
Yes indeed, I am as far away from your vision of Christian as one can get. I also now have a disdain for most organized churches today including my own. My belief in God is very personal and is based on faith not politics. I am a firm believer that Thomas Jefferson got it right .. Now if that makes me a bad Christian in your eyes ... I celebrate that ... but again do not send me emails railing against others who disagree with you. To quote Thomas Jefferson:

They [the 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 against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.

-Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800