Is America a Christian Nation? (3/9) - USC Debate, 10/29/09 - Opening Statement (Silverman)

[justjulie37]

Unfortunately Mr. Silverman, logic & facts are lost on religious folks

[jfsfrnd]

From: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, June 16, 1817

James Madison, Detached Memoranda

ca. 1817W. & M. Q., 3d ser., 3:554--60 1946

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion & Govt in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

[jfsfrnd]

From: Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, June 16, 1817

And you remember to have heard, that, when the act for religious freedom was before the Virginia Assembly, a motion to insert the name of Jesus Christ before the phrase, 'the author of our holy religion,' which stood in the bill, was rejected, although that was the creed of a great majority of them.

[jfsfrnd]

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects. [James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr., Jauary 1774]