04-12-2005, 03:46 PM
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
The following quotes have been attributed to the following founding fathers and early U.S. leaders:
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies." - Benjamin Franklin
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." - James Madison
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." - John Adams
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. " - Thomas Paine
Apparently they couldn't come to any conclusions on that whole "Christian nation" thing . . .
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Which is why I said that we can't assume that because SOME of the founders were Christians, the entire nation was meant to be.
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