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Thread #129946 Message #2920149
Posted By: olddude
03-Jun-10 - 08:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thomas Jefferson
Subject: RE: BS: Thomas Jefferson
I had a guy today that if he was alive he would be a fundamentalist Christian ... I quoted from memory
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789
I was told that I am a Liberal Elitist who buys into the socialist revision of history. He got all the buzz words didn't he.
Now there was a time in my life when I was not a peaceful , mild mannered Ex College Prof .. and in that stage he would have woke up from the floor from a roundhouse kick to the head from a certified black belt.
Today I just smile and say ... well ya better study a bit harder on American history.