Thomas Jefferson - Establishments of Religion Undermine Rights


	Thomas Jefferson - Establishments of Religion Undermine Rights

deezplace

5-8-2008 8:26 AM

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religion, rights, liberty, jefferson

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Religion has a lot to answer for.

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5-13-2008 12:18 PM

willhelm

“the power to prescribe religious exercise, or to assume
authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the states, as
far as it can be in any human authority.”
Thomas Jefferson

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"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson to Jeremiah Moor, 1800.
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"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.  This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes." --Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, 1813.  ME 14:21  
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"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." --Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814.  ME 14:119
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"The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788.  ME 7:98
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