Comments on: OMFG, He Won! 11pm, they called it… http://www.billwatters.com/archives/186 The blog, rants, ravings, and commentaries of Bill Watters Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:23:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MrsH http://www.billwatters.com/archives/186/comment-page-1#comment-14 MrsH Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:01:24 +0000 http://www.billwatters.com/archives/186#comment-14 You're so right, Bill! Thomas Jefferson would roll over in his grave if he knew what had become of his Republican party. I believe TJ was really a Libertarian. Here are just a few of my favorite quotes: "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." "And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter." "Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle." I wonder if the many Christians who quote TJ know that it is likely he was an atheist? Christianity is a wonderful thing when it is followed as Christ himself taught. Like TJ said: "The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind." Just started reading your blog. Good stuff! I'll be hanging around. Kathy You’re so right, Bill! Thomas Jefferson would roll over in his grave if he knew what had become of his Republican party. I believe TJ was really a Libertarian. Here are just a few of my favorite quotes:

“I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.”

“And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter.”

“Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.”

I wonder if the many Christians who quote TJ know that it is likely he was an atheist? Christianity is a wonderful thing when it is followed as Christ himself taught. Like TJ said:

“The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it’s benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.”

Just started reading your blog. Good stuff! I’ll be hanging around.

Kathy

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