Every member of the Texas GOP deserves to be smothered with a pillow.
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Our nation was founded on fundamental Judeo-Christian principles based on the Holy Bible
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Bullshit revisionist historians. Our most prominent founding fathers were Deists. Which is basically that they believed in A God. But that God has no basis in any earthly religion.
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The First Amendment
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...”
Article VI, Section 3
“...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”
Founding Father Quotes.
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John Adams
“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved — the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!”
“The Doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.”
“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved — the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!”
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Thomas Jefferson
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”
“...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, ‘Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,’ which 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 the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.’”
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
“In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
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James Madison
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise....During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”
“Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”
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Ben Franklin
“...Some books against Deism fell into my hands....It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations, in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.”
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Some of our Founding Father Deists:
Thomas Paine, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams,
James Madison, Ethan Allan, Ben Franklin, Henry Dearborne, Charles Lee.