What Jefferson, Adams and Madison warned the country about
More proof why this country needs to get Republicans out of power. Pat Robertson, one of the main inspirational leaders of the wacky Republican base, the 30-35% of the American population who masquerade as Christian, once again proves that Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Adams knew what they were doing when they wrote the Constitution. Protect the country from these insane rightwing bastards!
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?
-- John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, June 20, 1815
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
-- James Madison, 1803
