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Brief on Separation of Church and State
Law and Liberty Foundation ^
| May 2002
| Tayra Antolick
Posted on 03/26/2006 6:58:25 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
If the framers intended the current wall of seperation would they have opened congress with a prayer by a chaplain.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:02:08 PM PST
by
gondramB
(Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
To: Tailgunner Joe
Bookmarked for reference. Thanks for the find!
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:07:43 PM PST
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Excellent piece. Thank you.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:29:16 PM PST
by
AZ_Cowboy
("There they go again...")
To: AZ_Cowboy
To: Tailgunner Joe
Oppression, violence and hatred thrive where there is not sufficient seperation between the religious beliefs of a populace and the practice of that nations law (Iran and Saudi Arabia come to mind).
Religious beliefs are wonderful, PERSONAL things...but they are just that, Beliefs. Jesus is great I'm sure, but I sure wouldn't want him as President.
To: FivebyFive
BTW, have to burn now, gotta do something important.
I'll check back here tomorow though.
Good night and good luck, fellow Freepers.
His [Jefferson's] contempt for the religious elite who controlled both the civil and religious aspects in Virginia was epitomized in his comment concerning Calvin, which he wrote to John Adams:
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did. The being described in his 5 points is not the God whom you and I acknowledge and adore, the Creator and benevolent governor of the world…
It's a HUGE (probably 20K words) article, but appears to be well-worth reading.
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posted on
03/26/2006 9:09:19 PM PST
by
Alex Murphy
(Colossians 4:5)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Why do they call them *briefs*? Holy cow, this is going to take a couple days to digest.
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03/26/2006 10:13:14 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Anyone notice just how creepy silent the left was at st. Hillry's demand to protect Jesus legislation?
Proof positive these liberals know darn well the wall is of their own making and it goes up and comes down when they see fit.
To: Tailgunner Joe
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posted on
03/27/2006 4:00:36 AM PST
by
OriginalIntent
("No, no, no.. they're not against the Bible, they just spend all their time trying to undermine it.")
To: Tailgunner Joe
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03/27/2006 4:09:26 AM PST
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Cboldt
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To: FrankWoods
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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To: FrankWoods
"The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government." -
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution"There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation." - Joseph Story
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