Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Some quotes for certain US readers . . .

  • "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason" ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • "I do not believe in the divinity of Christ.” ~ William Howard Taf
  • "I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
  • "The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”~  John Adams, Treaty of Tripoli, 1796
  • "The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
  • "Keep the church and the state forever separated.”~ Ulysses S. Grant
  • “Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.”~ James Madison

4 comments:

  1. There have been rational people in the USA for a long time. It's sad that irrationality is being promoted in media channels, like Mr Beck's.

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  2. It certainly appears from my perspective in the UK that the sensible folk in the US need to find a stronger voice.

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  3. All of the above quotes are either fabricated or incomplete. I've always been curious as to why secularists/atheists have traditionally been prone to using fake quotes to prove their point. Interesting.

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  4. Note to readers: Bruce Gordon is the author of "Self Evident Truth: Restoring America Through The Bible, The Declaration Of Independence, And The Constitution".

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