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Sep. 11th, 2010
Make Today Religious Acceptance Day
Sep. 11th, 2010 10:52 am(I don't say "tolerance" because all tolerance means is, "I won't kill you for doing/being that." Acceptance means treating people who are/do that, whatever that is, as moral equals to yourself.)
Although I disagree with much of what Thomas Jefferson said and did (he was a hypocrite on more than just slavery), I agree with him most of the way on issues of religion:
--- from Notes on Religion, October 1776
--- Ibid.
--- Ibid.
--- Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, Connecticut, 1802
And most emphatically this:
--- A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779
Anything which a Christian group has a right to do, a Muslim group also has the right to do.
Anything that you would consider wrong to do to a Christian, you shouldn't do to a Muslim either.
And if you can't go along with those last two points, which aren't quotations but my own opinion, at the very least keep your bigotry to yourself.
Although I disagree with much of what Thomas Jefferson said and did (he was a hypocrite on more than just slavery), I agree with him most of the way on issues of religion:
Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. I may grow rich by art I am compelled to follow, I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment, but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve & abhor.
--- from Notes on Religion, October 1776
Why have Christians been distinguished above all people who have ever lived, for persecutions? Is it because it is the genius of their religion? No, its genius is the reverse. It is the refusing toleration to those of a different opinion which has produced all the bustles and wars on account of religion. It was the misfortune of mankind that during the darker centuries the Christian priests following their ambition and avarice combining with the magistrate to divide the spoils of the people, could establish the notion that schismatics might be ousted of their possessions & destroyed. This notion we have not yet cleared ourselves from.
--- Ibid.
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.
--- Ibid.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.
--- Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, Connecticut, 1802
And most emphatically this:
...our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
--- A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779
Anything which a Christian group has a right to do, a Muslim group also has the right to do.
Anything that you would consider wrong to do to a Christian, you shouldn't do to a Muslim either.
And if you can't go along with those last two points, which aren't quotations but my own opinion, at the very least keep your bigotry to yourself.
Make Today Religious Acceptance Day
Sep. 11th, 2010 10:52 am(I don't say "tolerance" because all tolerance means is, "I won't kill you for doing/being that." Acceptance means treating people who are/do that, whatever that is, as moral equals to yourself.)
Although I disagree with much of what Thomas Jefferson said and did (he was a hypocrite on more than just slavery), I agree with him most of the way on issues of religion:
--- from Notes on Religion, October 1776
--- Ibid.
--- Ibid.
--- Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, Connecticut, 1802
And most emphatically this:
--- A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779
Anything which a Christian group has a right to do, a Muslim group also has the right to do.
Anything that you would consider wrong to do to a Christian, you shouldn't do to a Muslim either.
And if you can't go along with those last two points, which aren't quotations but my own opinion, at the very least keep your bigotry to yourself.
Although I disagree with much of what Thomas Jefferson said and did (he was a hypocrite on more than just slavery), I agree with him most of the way on issues of religion:
Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. I may grow rich by art I am compelled to follow, I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment, but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve & abhor.
--- from Notes on Religion, October 1776
Why have Christians been distinguished above all people who have ever lived, for persecutions? Is it because it is the genius of their religion? No, its genius is the reverse. It is the refusing toleration to those of a different opinion which has produced all the bustles and wars on account of religion. It was the misfortune of mankind that during the darker centuries the Christian priests following their ambition and avarice combining with the magistrate to divide the spoils of the people, could establish the notion that schismatics might be ousted of their possessions & destroyed. This notion we have not yet cleared ourselves from.
--- Ibid.
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.
--- Ibid.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.
--- Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, Connecticut, 1802
And most emphatically this:
...our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
--- A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779
Anything which a Christian group has a right to do, a Muslim group also has the right to do.
Anything that you would consider wrong to do to a Christian, you shouldn't do to a Muslim either.
And if you can't go along with those last two points, which aren't quotations but my own opinion, at the very least keep your bigotry to yourself.