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01-24-10, 10:30 AM #91
Re: ACOG sights inscribed with Bible Verse
Originally Posted by Anti-Squeaker
My comment that you hadn't "read too many original documents from the people who were part of the government" that wrote our earliest governing documents was more a response to your first comment about not having a mentioning of ""God" in the pledge of allegiance." There are a great many first hand sources that show that the founders were not opposed to religion in government, they were opposed to an officially sanctioned ("establishment of") religion administered by the government.
Now as for Thomas Jefferson (don't quote me on any of this, I don't have time to go thoroughly research it right now), I believe he is what was known as a "deist" and cherry-picked the parts of the Bible that he liked, while discarding the rest. This is similar to some religions today that take selections from the Bible, the Koran, the Tanakh, and other religious texts while not completely following any of them. You can see this in the above quotes where he refers to taking the good parts of the New Testament and separating it from the parts he believes to be defective ("It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.") The same appears to be true of your second Jefferson quote, where he refers to "restor[ing] to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors." I'm not an English major, but I do believe that "this most venerated reformer of human errors" refers to Jesus or God. If this is correct, he is essentially saying "I don't believe that Jesus was the child of a virgin but maybe one day in America we'll follow the important stuff that he put forward without believing in a virgin birth."
If you really want me to go dig up a ridiculous amount of quotes, I'll do it, but it'll take me a while to go find them all and I really don't think it'll change your mind. PM me if you are interested.
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