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<blockquote data-quote="The Other Side" data-source="post: 1357495" data-attributes="member: 17969">The only slant comes from the religious right who want so desperately to refer to the USA as a Christian nation, and any hopes of attaching the founders to this principle is silly at best.When Thomas Jefferson ran for the presidency, his opponents ran against him calling him an ATHEIST.&nbsp; He was attacked for being an atheist and his OWN writings used against him.As for the Jefferson bible, Jefferson REDACTED the portions of the bible that he found to be ABSURD, FOOLISH, UNTRUE or flat out LIES.&nbsp; These are HIS words.I agree with Jefferson, the bible is filled with nonsense, and as Thomas Paine wrote:&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God.&nbsp; It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.&quot;Paine, another atheist, worked with Jefferson to insure that CHRISTIANITY played NO PART in our government or our system of governing.While Christians in this country are desperate to force everyone into a one religious nation, they have to soon realize that organized religion is fading in this country and a true freedom of religion growing to mean keeping it more private than public.TOS.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Other Side, post: 1357495, member: 17969"] The only slant comes from the religious right who want so desperately to refer to the USA as a Christian nation, and any hopes of attaching the founders to this principle is silly at best. When Thomas Jefferson ran for the presidency, his opponents ran against him calling him an ATHEIST. He was attacked for being an atheist and his OWN writings used against him. As for the Jefferson bible, Jefferson REDACTED the portions of the bible that he found to be ABSURD, FOOLISH, UNTRUE or flat out LIES. These are HIS words. I agree with Jefferson, the bible is filled with nonsense, and as Thomas Paine wrote: "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." Paine, another atheist, worked with Jefferson to insure that CHRISTIANITY played NO PART in our government or our system of governing. While Christians in this country are desperate to force everyone into a one religious nation, they have to soon realize that organized religion is fading in this country and a true freedom of religion growing to mean keeping it more private than public. TOS. [/QUOTE]

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