tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758552631193356408.post3939920385306380463..comments2023-04-05T04:55:09.891-04:00Comments on On The Mark™: Why Jews Favor Mormons & Muslims Over Evangelicals—And Why You Should CareMark Koltko-Riverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11173090767545559729noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758552631193356408.post-17921667552119939042012-07-13T12:09:21.973-04:002012-07-13T12:09:21.973-04:00I think Thomas Jefferson got it right:
The bill f...I think Thomas Jefferson got it right:<br /><br /><i>The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word “Jesus Christ,” so that it should read, “a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by a great majority, <b>in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mahometan, the Hindoo, and the Infidel of every denomination</b>.<br /><br />Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Modern Library 1993 edition, pp. 45 and 46.</i><br /><br />I've <a href="http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/encore-post-jefferson-on-religious-freedom/" rel="nofollow">blogged about it before</a>.<br /><br />Best,<br />EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com