On 14 Jul 2005 12:12:13 -0700, theist/dunderhead M. CLARK, now posting
as "fred" <clarma1@gmail.com> wrote:
Just can't handle those founder's quotes, can you?
They were
conservative by today's standards.
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
--Thomas Jefferson
"We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of
things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on
the Christian religion" - George Washington, approved and passed
unanimously by US Senate, 1797
During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of
Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or
less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and
servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and
persecution. --James Madison
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the
worst. --Thomas Paine
. . .difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several
sects perform the office of a common censor over each other. Is
uniformity [of opinion] attainable? Millions of innocent men, women,
and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt,
tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards
uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the
world fools, and the other half hypocrites. --Thomas Jefferson, "Notes
on the State of Virginia [1781- 1785]"
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the
Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be
classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of
Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of
thought in these United States will do away with this artificial
scaffolding and restore to use the primitive and genuine doctrines of
this most venerated Reformer of human errors. --Thomas Jefferson
They [preachers] dread the advance of science as witches do the
approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the
subversions of the duperies on which they live. --Thomas Jefferson
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the
world, and do not find in our particular superstition - Christianity-
one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and
mythology. --Thomas Jefferson
"But the greatest of all the reformers of the depraved religion of His
own country, was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really His
from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its
lustre from the dross of His biographers, and as separable from that
at the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of
the most sublime morality which has even fallen from the lips of man;
outlines which it is lamentable He did not live to fill up." -- Thomas
Jefferson
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.
Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions,
Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we
find in Christianity. --John Adams
During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of
Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or
less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and
servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and
persecution. --James Madison
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the
worst. --Thomas Paine
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