tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487323.post6489869995166359079..comments2023-12-25T03:15:00.044-08:00Comments on Rants From The Rookery: Thomas Jefferson was not a Christianellroonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11335409429673647381noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487323.post-37749596095258258082009-07-03T07:20:29.735-07:002009-07-03T07:20:29.735-07:00This hilarious comment deserves its own post.This hilarious comment deserves its <a href="http://rantsfromtherookery.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-get-comments.html" rel="nofollow">own post.</a>ellroonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335409429673647381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487323.post-60194454370827136482009-07-03T00:59:49.888-07:002009-07-03T00:59:49.888-07:00Thomas jefferson was a a secret muslim and practis...Thomas jefferson was a a secret muslim and practised polygamy. They just found out that his ancestors were arabs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487323.post-44475259701697102812007-12-01T23:01:00.000-08:002007-12-01T23:01:00.000-08:00The people who advocate for tearing down the wall ...The people who advocate for tearing down the wall don't want to be saints, they want to be kings.<BR/><BR/>Well said, sir! Amen!ellroonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335409429673647381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487323.post-9072759505510468572007-12-01T19:06:00.000-08:002007-12-01T19:06:00.000-08:00You can't understand many references in English la...You can't understand many references in English language literature and rhetoric that follows the Elizabethans if you have not read the King James Version of the Bible. There are thousands of translation errors known to be in the KJV, but it is the most quoted source in English letters.<BR/><BR/>Thomas Jefferson started the Library of Congress with his personal collection, thought to be the largest in the New World at the time. The only book that was available in any quantity for years after the founding of the United States was the KJV, so it would be the obvious choice for a school, until text books began to appear much later in the 19th century.<BR/><BR/>Family Bibles were the official records of their day, listing births, deaths and marriages before official record keeping was established, and are still regarded by courts as valid records.<BR/><BR/>As my earliest ancestors in this country were escaping from religious wars [not necessarily religious persecution] in the Netherlands and German Palantine, I am not inclined to advocate for those wars in this supposed refuge from such madness.<BR/><BR/>When church and state mix, church always loses. The people who advocate for tearing down the wall don't want to be saints, they want to be kings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487323.post-9101349758175769812007-12-01T14:46:00.000-08:002007-12-01T14:46:00.000-08:00The smell of power, of dealings on Capitol Hill, t...The smell of power, of dealings on Capitol Hill, the easing of restrictions for federal funding for faith-based program activities has brought them out of the woodwork. You can just see Dobson and Robinson (and Falwell) drooling over how to carve off the biggest piece for themselves.<BR/><BR/>Probably more people had died in the name of God than any other reason. God forbid.ellroonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335409429673647381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487323.post-23104301608348695722007-12-01T14:01:00.000-08:002007-12-01T14:01:00.000-08:00A great improvement, Michael; a GREAT improvement....A great improvement, Michael; a <B>GREAT</B> improvement. To your call for a holy peace, I'll add a call for an "unholy" peace (better described, a secular peace), and I think between the two of us we'll have the matter of peace completely covered. As for war, there is no such thing as holy war: all war is unholy... especially war pursued in the name of holiness.<BR/><BR/>The entire notion of government involvement in religion is an insult to the secular and the sacred alike, the latter because it is inevitably deeply personal, the former because it belongs to all of us. For a long time, most Americans agreed to separate church and state as intrinsically vastly different human spheres of knowledge and activity. What happened? Where did the dominionists come from, anyway?Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487323.post-56767440849740183902007-12-01T12:31:00.000-08:002007-12-01T12:31:00.000-08:00I call for a holy peace. How's that idea?I call for a holy peace. How's that idea?mahakalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08649042340743257076noreply@blogger.com