Since the man who WROTE the Constitution said they were unconstitutional, Henry's change of position is immaterial, as his opinion could not make them so.
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Are you even aware that they were the response to the very first "red scare" in our history?
Don't be insulting. I know exactly why the acts were passed.
So do you believe if people are frightened enough, the Constitution becomes moot?
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Have you lacerated your Bible as well?
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Just because Jefferson detested the politicalization of the church didn't mean he wasn't a Christian.
Thomas Jefferson- Letter To Dr. Benjamin Rush (April 21, 1803) :
In some of the delightful conversations with you in the evenings of 1798-99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic; and I then promised you that one day or other I would give you my views of it. They are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed, but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others, ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.
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One would think someone who is so quick to question the historical knowledge of others would be aware of a few facts themselves.
Are you even aware that they were the response to the very first "red scare" in our history?
Don't be insulting. I know exactly why the acts were passed.
So do you believe if people are frightened enough, the Constitution becomes moot?
Do you regard Senator McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover as potential tyrants as well for their opposition to subversion?
Just because Jefferson detested the politicalization of the church didn't mean he wasn't a Christian.
Jefferson's own definition as you have quoted it defines "chr*stianity" as adherence to the ethical concepts taught by J*sus rather than to any dogmatic religion. This is the same "chr*stianity" of the National and World Council of Churches, Barak Obama, and ever liberal chr*stian.
Does your religion reduce to rationalistic ethics as well?