:|Clyde Frog wrote:
:|> fred wrote..., On 08/14/2005 19:01:
:|> > Finally, I will admit that separationists are not entirely without
:|> > justification for their paranoia of religion, but more specifically
:|> > bully pulpit preachers. For example, note that while the Constitution
:|> > prohibits laws that say that people cannot pray in public, Matthew
:|> > 6:5-7 shows that Jesus taught his followers not to pray in public
:|> > anyway. So regardless if there are no federal or state laws which
:|> > prohibit public school led public prayer, Jesus himself put limits on
:|> > public prayer for Christians. But the fact that there are "Christians"
:|> > who literally disobey Jesus' teachings/commands by shoving public
:|> > school prayer down everybody's throats shows that the bully pulpit
:|> > preachers that separationists despise are real. Again, the 14th
:|> > Amendment prohibits bully pulpit preachers from pirating the unique
:|> > powers of the states to abridge the federal rights of US citizens. But
:|> > separationists don't understand this and are not letting the
:|> > Constitution do its job correctly.
:|>
:|> I have nothing but contempt for xianity, but thank you so much for
:|> pointing out that passage.
:|
:|Fortunately, Jefferson was able to see through the hypocrisy of bully
:|pulpit preachers with respect to Christianity:
:|
:|"The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the
:|clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and
:|simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others
:|most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the
:|human mind." --Thomas Jefferson to Moses Robinson, 1801. ME 10:237
:|