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Religion and Politics

I found this in the comments section of this blog , which is devoted for the most part to debunking the claims made by pseudo-historian David Barton , who claims that the Founding Fathers, and Thomas Jefferson in particular, were Christians whose aim it was to create a Christian nation. ###### The Ten Commandments of our Founding Fathers 1. Your neighbor’s religion is none of your concern. “But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782 “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.” Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1813 2. You shall not mingle religion with politics. And here, without anger or resentment I bid you farewell. Sincerely wishing, that as men and Christians, ye may alwa