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To: little jeremiah
"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot ... they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purpose." --- Thomas Jefferson, to Horatio Spafford, March 17, 1814

Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Codifying one will destroy this Right for all.

"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not." --- James Madison, "A Memorial and Remonstrance", 1785

Restore us to a Constitutional government? Certainly. A common set of minimal laws that protects us from directly hurting each other or our property? Certainly. In fact, we have that already in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Supplant that Constitution with the Bible as was purposed up-thread?

No.

58 posted on 12/05/2012 12:50:33 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Dead Corpse

You’re doing nothing but beating a straw man to death.

I’m not even a Christian nor do I consider the Bible inerrant. Find someone else to play with.


59 posted on 12/05/2012 1:42:41 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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