Is Bush Seeking To Be Pope Of
America?
Among the right wing political and religious
elements of the United States there is a concerted effort to rewrite history
to support their belief that America was founded as a Christian nation,
even though the U.S. Constitution contains no mention of Christianity
or Jesus Christ.
While some of the early Colonies did establish governments based on various
religions, those same religious based colonies practiced religious intolerance
and persecution. The same things they came to America to escape. When
it became necessary to band together to separate from England the leaders
and great thinkers of the time stepped forward to help outline a form
of government divorced from the bigotry of religious favoritism.
Luckily a large group of free thinkers who where Deists (Free Masons)
and not Christians won the day and religion was kept from dominating the
government of the United States.
In the early days of the United States the Pope was vocal about his opposition
to the non-Christian Deists in the United States and clear on his insistence
that the Church should control the government. This is the same Church
that today harbors pedophiles and moves them from one community another
with out warning the community, giving these sick people a new pool of
children to pray on. The rest of the Christian community says nothing
about it and George Bush the great Christian and war hero says nothing
about it.
All George Bush has to say are frightening things like, "I trust God speaks
through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job", and supports the inclusion
of religious doctrines in the teaching of science in public schools. My
greatest fear is that, as a representative of the extremist right wing
of Christianity, Bush feels that the second coming of Christ will take
place once the war of Armageddon takes place in the middle east. I don't
what to be part of his perverted religious philosophy. Get Religion Out
Of Government.
Some of those who were part of the founding of America included:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Benjamin
Franklin and Thomas Paine. These men were all Free Masons and non-Christian
Deists. They all supported the separation of church and state and I think
would believe that a "religious epiphany" should never be the basis for
going to war or creating any form of legislation.
Following are a few quotes from these men:
George Washington
Washington revealed almost nothing to indicate his spiritual frame of
mind, hardly a mark of a devout Christian. In his thousands of letters,
the name of Jesus Christ never appears. He rarely spoke about his religion,
but his Freemasonry experience points to a belief in deism. Washington's
initiation occurred at the Fredericksburg Lodge on 4 November 1752, later
becoming a Master mason in 1799, and remained a freemason until he died.
Thomas Jefferson
" I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by
the Constitution from intermeddling in religious institutions, their doctrines,
discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that
no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of
religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not
delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious
exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated
to the General Government. It must rest with the States, as far as it
can be in any human authority." (letter to Samuel Miller, Jan. 23
1808).
John Adams
In his, "A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States
of America" [1787-1788], John Adams wrote:
"The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example
of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men
are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture,
hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in
their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments
is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America,
it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended
that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods,
or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at
work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture;
it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived
merely by the use of reason and the senses.
James Madison
In 1785, Madison wrote in his Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious
Assessments: "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment
of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less
in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility
in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." "What influence,
in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances
they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil
authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones
of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the
liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty
may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government,
instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
Ben Franklin
"If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in
Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors,
and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution
extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first
Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish
church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. These found it wrong in the
Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here [England]
and in New England."
Thomas Paine
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the
Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any
church that I know of. My own mind is my church. " "Of all the systems
of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the
Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more
contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. "
"I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job"
GWB
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