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**Cogebrego** · 08-07-2011, 02:21 AM

Didn't we get that from W?
Apparently Jesus would bomb Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon, Somalia...............

The whole "god" thing started in the mid-twentieth cen. The country got along quite well w/o it up until that time

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. *

08-07-2011, 02:21 AM	#15
Cogebrego Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 487 Senior Member	Didn't we get that from W? Apparently Jesus would bomb Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon, Somalia............... The whole "god" thing started in the mid-twentieth cen. The country got along quite well w/o it up until that time 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. *
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