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Thread #129946   Message #2920578
Posted By: olddude
04-Jun-10 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Thomas Jefferson
Subject: RE: BS: Thomas Jefferson
I been called a non Christian, had some hate thrown at me lately via phone and email. Yet for me, I think I know more about the love and Compassion of Jesus far more than any of them will ever know. And it is indeed a personal thing.

Why would a Christian get upset at this attempt by fundamentists. Because it is destructive and it slanders the great men who made this nation. For me the hand of God took place by not giving them the organized faith but the ideals of the free masons. Without it, we would be the taliban because history proves that power and corruption always occurs when any church takes control.

"I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Richard Price, Jan. 8, 1789 (Richard Price had written to TJ on Oct. 26. about the harm done by religion and wrote "Would not Society be better without Such religions? Is Atheism less pernicious than Demonism?")