every now and then i have linked to perhaps one of the most heinenous "professional" websites out there known as the presidential prayer team. likewise, everynow and then i like to peruse anti-religious comments made by the U.S.'s founding fathers (a group of capitalists yearning to be free of english taxation). a giant collection can be found here. among my favourites are:

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." -- -- "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."--Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard, 1758

TESTIFY!!

"Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another."--Benjamin Franklin

TESTIFY!!

"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises."--Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Samuel Miller, 1808

TESTIFY!!

i wonder what the founding fathers would say about the presidential prayer team, or about the faith-based meddlings of the president with the economy and the constitution. of course, they might be surprised that the "negros and womenfolk" are voting, but i think they would be smart enough to realise this as progress - as in their time they could express the quotes above without being stoned to death or ending up in the iron maiden.

so basically - in comparison to colonial america, we're Fucked.

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