…Really? How about the real letters:
…And
…boom.
Instant reblog.
Can’t wait for tomorrow’s Daily Show.
You only quoted Thomas Jefferson, who was only one of the seven key founding fathers. He was also a deist, someone who believed in a higher power, just not the Bible…
I’ll agree with you to a point Alex, because most of the major movers and shakers of the Founding Fathers yes were Deists. But a lot of Glenn Beck’s interpretation of the FF is as men who only new Christianity and who intended for this to be a Christian country. Which is bullshit.
And I’m sure you know that so this next bit is for the readers who don’t. This quote was my third Tumblr post ever:
“ The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word “Jesus Christ,” so that it should read, “a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography 1821
Works 1:71
on the wording of the First Ammendment, particularly the section on freedom of religion
