People love to mess with history for their own political agenda, but the fact remains, the people who started a new chapter for our country were a bunch of radicals, who did not stand behind Jesus in the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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| "One Nation Under God," by Jon McNaughton |
Here's a bit of conservative propaganda painted by Jon McNaughton. Isn't it a bit ironic to see Jesus holding the document that gives us freedom of religion? Never did our constitution call us a "Christian nation." Instead our constitution stated, "Legislature" should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Looking deeper, is that Thomas Jefferson standing behind Jesus? Here's two of his quotes.
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common
law.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10,
1814
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by
his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct
morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again
of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism,
and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions
should have proceeded from the same being.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820
Glenn Beck, Mr. Tea Bagger himself, likes to dress up as Thomas Paine. Now that's funny! Paine was the atheist who said, "Churches were human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind."
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the
Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the
Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my
own Church. [Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason]
How about Adams who said, "This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it." I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.
-- John Adams, letter to his brother-in-law, Richard Cranch, August 29, 1756, explaining how his independent opinions would create much difficulty in the ministry, in Edwin S Gaustad, Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation (1987) p. 88, quoted from Ed and Michael Buckner, "Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church"
And this, Dear Readers, is all I ever ask for. Quit trying to push your faith on me or change the history of our founding fathers when they began a new chapter. I have nothing against religion. I just don't want to be pressured to practice yours, nor lied to about who are founding fathers truly were.
I leave you with a Bill Maher clip that you'll either love or loathe. Either way, have a wonderful Independence Day!
