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god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear." Thomas Jefferson -- Letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787
Letters to President George W. Bush (These, I submit, are pusillanimous diatribes indeed.)
We respectfully urge you to step back from the brink of war and help lead the world to act together to fashion an effective global response to Iraq's threats that conforms with traditional moral limits on the use of military force. Sincerely yours, Most Reverend Wilton D. Gregory Bishop of Belleville President My prayer is that you and your colleagues will give diplomacy every opportunity to succeed, and that you will find it possible to use deterrence and containment, not military action, to keep Saddam Hussein in check. Please be assured that you are and will continue to be in my prayers. Faithfully, The Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk Fifteenth Bishop of New York Now for the statements of a few stalwart minds.
"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy." -- General Marquis De Lafayette (1789)
"The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy."--George Washington
John Adams (the second President of the United States) Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli (June 7, 1797). Article 11 states: “The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
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