tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564473.post111948131336740262..comments2024-01-15T05:32:24.873-05:00Comments on The Jon Rowe Archives: Jonathan Rowehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04079637406589278386noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564473.post-1134691666881348412005-12-15T19:07:00.000-05:002005-12-15T19:07:00.000-05:00Speaking of Deism, if anyone is interested in lear...Speaking of Deism, if anyone is interested in learning a bit more about it, I think this page does wonders: www.sullivan-county.com/deism.htm<BR/><BR/>This page is OK but it tends towards a more extreme view of Deism and it has a definite anti-christian slant: www.deism.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564473.post-1119827858078100162005-06-26T19:17:00.000-04:002005-06-26T19:17:00.000-04:00James Madison alluded, I think, to cpt_doom's asse...James Madison alluded, I think, to cpt_doom's assessment of European history in his "A Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments" (1785). There is a quote of him in James A. Haught's "2000 Years of Disbelief" (1803) that more specifically supports Mr. doom's argument, which is: "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." The genuineness of the quote, however, has not been verified by Madison scholars, to my knowledge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6564473.post-1119638839198873192005-06-24T14:47:00.000-04:002005-06-24T14:47:00.000-04:00Nice post, and let me also add that it is clear ou...Nice post, and let me also add that it is clear our Founding Fathers, whatever their individual faiths, were cognizant of the huge toll religious wars had taken on England since the time of Bloody Mary. When the First Amendment was created, I have to believe that they had those wars in mind, and hoped to avoid the very kind of thinking many of the fundamentalists are now using - that this country has only one "real" religion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com