We Offer History #29 (for the history challenged)

NOVEMBER 11, 1816

You  ask if I mean to publish anything on the subject of a letter
of mine to my friend Charles Thomson? Certainly not. I write nothing for
publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of
religion. On the dogmas of religion as distinguished from moral principles,
all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been
quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions
unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the
comprehension of the human mind. Were I to enter on that arena, I should
only add an unit to the number of Bedlamites. Accept the assurance of my
great esteem and respect.
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Excerpt from letter from Thomas Jefferson to Mathew
Carey, November 11, 1816. The works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes,
Federal Edition, Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford, Volume XII,
G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press (1905) pp 42)

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You are invited to check out the following:

The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm

American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm

The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html

[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]

HRSepCnS · Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/

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. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning.  Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic."  New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
. . .
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James Veverka wrote:
One of the ways to counter the attack on American Constitutional principles
by the religious right is to address their revisionism, misinformation and
distortions.

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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote

"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"

That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.

It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html

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