Separation of Church and State - The Metaphor and the Constitution? Myth vs.Reality
source: http://thecreativelymaladjusted.blogspot.com/2011/01/separation-of-church-and-state-metaphor...
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“In the affairs of the world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the lack of it.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the Common Law.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world,
And I do not find in our particular superstition (orthodox Christianity) one redeeming feature.
They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.”
-Thomas Jefferson
- Benjamin Franklin
“In the affairs of the world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the lack of it.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the Common Law.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world,
And I do not find in our particular superstition (orthodox Christianity) one redeeming feature.
They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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