Reticent Rogue Part I
Reticent Rogue sends us the following:
Mr. Naybob, genuine history--without progressive 'adjustments'--demonstrates that the 'wall of separation between Church and State' was originally used by Baptist Preacher, Roger Williams...
to keep local government out of his church's affairs and that Thomas Jefferson picked it up sometime later to remind the Danbury Baptists they were not allowed to take over the US Government.
All your pedanticisms cannot change the fact that the search for religious freedom and the Judeo-Christian ethic are largely responsible for the founding of this country.
Stay home from church if you like but do not change history. I predict that if this revisionism on behalf of progressive humanists like you continues...
history text book from the 1950's will one day be selling at a premium--just so folks can read the facts.
The Nattering One muses: as a rule, we don't feed the trolls, lest they grow.
In the Reticent ones case, we need to feed him some poison, in the form of facts.
Yes, "Jefferson picked it up sometime later" and in a much more eloquent manner.
The church should be kept out of government at all costs.
In Jefferson's time, governments were infested with religious vermin who oppressed individual rights at every turn.
We see no change today, and tire of the Jim Jones, Bogwans and religious fanatics of this world who believe in omnipotent invisible men.
"The search for religious freedom and the Judeo-Christian ethic are largely responsible for the founding of this country."
The flight from religious oppression is partially responsible.
Rich, greedy land and slave owners who didn't want to be taxed, were also responsible.
The Judeo-Christian ethic is responsible only for the wanton slaughter of indigenous peoples...
and all those who do not subscribe to the same patently false god that they worship in pagan rituals.
We do stay home from church as it tends to attract these lunatics and losers, who have no faith in themselves.
We do believe in one thing, the church should be taxed, just like all other business.
No-one in your circle will be reading any facts, any time soon. As you are not a humanist, nor a progressive thinker.
You are stuck in a retrogressive, non humanist, faith based dogma called, a religion.
My condolences to you and your family. More to Come in Part II.
Mr. Naybob, genuine history--without progressive 'adjustments'--demonstrates that the 'wall of separation between Church and State' was originally used by Baptist Preacher, Roger Williams...
to keep local government out of his church's affairs and that Thomas Jefferson picked it up sometime later to remind the Danbury Baptists they were not allowed to take over the US Government.
All your pedanticisms cannot change the fact that the search for religious freedom and the Judeo-Christian ethic are largely responsible for the founding of this country.
Stay home from church if you like but do not change history. I predict that if this revisionism on behalf of progressive humanists like you continues...
history text book from the 1950's will one day be selling at a premium--just so folks can read the facts.
The Nattering One muses: as a rule, we don't feed the trolls, lest they grow.
In the Reticent ones case, we need to feed him some poison, in the form of facts.
Yes, "Jefferson picked it up sometime later" and in a much more eloquent manner.
The church should be kept out of government at all costs.
In Jefferson's time, governments were infested with religious vermin who oppressed individual rights at every turn.
We see no change today, and tire of the Jim Jones, Bogwans and religious fanatics of this world who believe in omnipotent invisible men.
"The search for religious freedom and the Judeo-Christian ethic are largely responsible for the founding of this country."
The flight from religious oppression is partially responsible.
Rich, greedy land and slave owners who didn't want to be taxed, were also responsible.
The Judeo-Christian ethic is responsible only for the wanton slaughter of indigenous peoples...
and all those who do not subscribe to the same patently false god that they worship in pagan rituals.
We do stay home from church as it tends to attract these lunatics and losers, who have no faith in themselves.
We do believe in one thing, the church should be taxed, just like all other business.
No-one in your circle will be reading any facts, any time soon. As you are not a humanist, nor a progressive thinker.
You are stuck in a retrogressive, non humanist, faith based dogma called, a religion.
My condolences to you and your family. More to Come in Part II.
Comments
More people need to stand together on calling out the inappropriate conduct of both government and religion.
You, my friend have genuine courage and integrity for doing it.
"The bottom line: a new and more equitable Social Contract is needed."
Yes, 100% agree. Most people are good and want to be good but often lack the education and positive motivation to be good.
On Jean Jacques Rousseau statement:
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
Connect the dots; We have over a thousand competing religions in the world all claiming to be right yet pure simple math makes it painfully clear at best, one might be right.
For those who wish to be truly enlightened, understanding the error that generates a thousand competing religions is critical in not getting taken advantages of.
No one can deny that error is: "blind, superstitious faith" And no one can deny that falsehood has an infinity of combinations.
Waverider