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Deborah L Detering's avatar

As an inheritor of New England attitudes and agnosticism akin to Thomas Jefferson's, I am positive you are right about the wall working both ways. My forbearers (names of Parker, Potter, Perkins, Young are obvious) of Anglo-American heritage were primarily agnostic, some more deist than others, who would have agreed wholeheartedly with Thomas Jefferson's edited Bible, and my father's worst fear was that his children might become "intolerant." My own adolescent rebellion was to join a standard Christian church, but I remain convinced that allowing a specific religion to guide the government results in destruction (or major reformation) of that religion. My faith does not allow me to judge others by their faith--only by their actions. These people don't understand the Founding Fathers, except for the Cotton Mather or sinners-in-the-hands-of-an-angry-God sort. My parents, grandparents, and generations before (I have letters) were Christians with faith like Thomas Jeffersons's--except for slave-owning!--which most of the evangelical crowd would not accept as "Christian."

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W B Tichenor's avatar

Outstanding!!! A great way to start off the New Year. Johnson has shown when it comes to religious liberty, church-state separation and Jefferson, he is severely intellectually and educationally challenged. A very low IQ when it comes to these critical issues.

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