Jefferson wrote: "History furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government" and "[i]n 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." He had strongly anti-clerical views. I wish you would paint a more honest picture of Jefferson. He was actually an Epicurean and an Enlightenment thinker with a profound distrust of organized religion and the power-hunger of clerical establishments.
Why do you portray the Danbury baptists as being concerned about a government preventing them from worship, when in reality, they’re concern was about a religious government, a Christian government (specifically, a Calvinist sect in power, in Connecticut at the time), using the power of government to enforce a religious doctrine to which they didn’t adhere? Yes, the separation of church and state is a metaphor Jefferson used to explain the meaning of the first amendment. The message is clear, that Danbury baptists, and all Americans, will not be burdened by government establishing and enforcing religious doctrine. That, in a world of countless faiths and religious denominations, the government would handle the secular affairs of state, and not concern itself with spiritual/doctrinal/dogmatic affairs, so the people can deal with those affairs themselves. It’s almost as if you believe the opposite of what Jefferson was talking about.
The church goers who sent a letter to Thomas Jefferson, saw the push for Calvinism and did not want a repeat of how the Roman Catholics deemed Protestants as heretics and had them put to death. Which is why the pilgrims fled Europe in the first place. They were worried the government would favour one religious denomination over another yet again. Thomas Jefferson wrote them back saying there must be a “Separation of Church and State”. But it was not what atheists today think. Oh no. He did not want there to be separation of religion from government, rather he wanted government not to tell church goers what they were going to need to believe or do. Whether you’re forcing them to be Calvinists, Catholics, Muslims or whatever. So he firmly agreed with those whom sent the letter. So modern scholars have twisted this into meaning that Jefferson meant “no religion in government.” This was not the case. Rather that you should not impose one forced denomination or religion on all churches in America. So public schools, colleges and universities today clearly have an agenda because they intentionally take him out of context and change the very core meaning of Jefferson’s letter, flipping it on end.
I read a piece today about a teacher in Fl being fired for ousting muslims praying in her office, she got fired for kicking them out......Separation for the teacher....?????
I don't agree with alot of your politics but this was a beautifully done!!
Jefferson wrote: "History furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government" and "[i]n 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." He had strongly anti-clerical views. I wish you would paint a more honest picture of Jefferson. He was actually an Epicurean and an Enlightenment thinker with a profound distrust of organized religion and the power-hunger of clerical establishments.
Why do you portray the Danbury baptists as being concerned about a government preventing them from worship, when in reality, they’re concern was about a religious government, a Christian government (specifically, a Calvinist sect in power, in Connecticut at the time), using the power of government to enforce a religious doctrine to which they didn’t adhere?
Yes, the separation of church and state is a metaphor Jefferson used to explain the meaning of the first amendment. The message is clear, that Danbury baptists, and all Americans, will not be burdened by government establishing and enforcing religious doctrine. That, in a world of countless faiths and religious denominations, the government would handle the secular affairs of state, and not concern itself with spiritual/doctrinal/dogmatic affairs, so the people can deal with those affairs themselves.
It’s almost as if you believe the opposite of what Jefferson was talking about.
The church goers who sent a letter to Thomas Jefferson, saw the push for Calvinism and did not want a repeat of how the Roman Catholics deemed Protestants as heretics and had them put to death. Which is why the pilgrims fled Europe in the first place. They were worried the government would favour one religious denomination over another yet again.
Thomas Jefferson wrote them back saying there must be a “Separation of Church and State”. But it was not what atheists today think. Oh no. He did not want there to be separation of religion from government, rather he wanted government not to tell church goers what they were going to need to believe or do. Whether you’re forcing them to be Calvinists, Catholics, Muslims or whatever. So he firmly agreed with those whom sent the letter. So modern scholars have twisted this into meaning that Jefferson meant “no religion in government.” This was not the case. Rather that you should not impose one forced denomination or religion on all churches in America. So public schools, colleges and universities today clearly have an agenda because they intentionally take him out of context and change the very core meaning of Jefferson’s letter, flipping it on end.
I read a piece today about a teacher in Fl being fired for ousting muslims praying in her office, she got fired for kicking them out......Separation for the teacher....?????
Good for her for kicking them out. 👏
America is afraid of muslims ! Fact!!!!
@@berthamarshall644 The one's we consider to be thugs are just as killable as is any terrorist....
you need to tell about the judge also ua-cam.com/video/DS6QGyWVgZY/v-deo.html
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