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"GIVING THE LIE TO THE CHRISTIAN RIGHTWING"
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Howdy, gang! It's time for another radical-subversive, smutty,
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leftwing upload from that old electronic anarchist, Sax Allen, coming to you
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very much alive from Free San Francisco!
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In recent weeks, the Reagan/Nixon stacked Supreme Court has
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abandoned law and precedent in favor of extreme rightwing ideology and the
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Heritage Foundation agenda. They've begun dismantling the progressive changes
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for which we all fought so hard and long. They're sabotaging and undermining
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important gains in civil rights, abortion, search and seizure, privacy and
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separation of church and state.
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Because these rightwing noodle heads are so fond of making up
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their own "factoids" and because they're currently pumping out a bunch of
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malarkey about America supposedly being a "Christian" nation, and because as
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proof of this they're making up religious lies about some of our most
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intelligent presidents...for all these reasons I thought you'd enjoy hearing a
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few hot words from our founding fathers themselves. Note in particular what
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George Washington says!
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The American Revolution of 1776 was to a large degree led by men
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steeped in the rational humanism of the Enlightenment who considered all
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established religion a form of barbaric superstition. Thus their insistence on
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the separation of church and state, which was universally regarded as the MOST
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RADICAL aspect of the American Revolution.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON:
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"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the
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introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned:
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yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect
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of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
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To suport roguery and error all over the earth."
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-- "Notes on the State of Virginia" (1781-82)
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"...the priests indeed have heretofore thought proper to ascribe
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to me religious, or rather anti-religious sentiments, of their own fabric, but
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such as soothed their resentments against the act of Virginia for establishing
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religious freedom. They wished him to be thought atheist, deist, or devil, who
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could advocate freedom from their religious dictations. But I have ever
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thought religion a concern purely between our God and our consciences, for
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which we were accountable to him, and not to the priests."
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-- Letter to Mrs. Harrison Smith (6 August 1816)
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JOHN ADAMS:
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"Eight millions of Jews hope for a Messiah more powerful and
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glorious than Moses, David, or Solomon; who is to make them as powerful as he
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pleases. Some hundreds of millions of Mussulmans [Moslems] expect another
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prophet more powerful than Mahomet [Mohammed], who is to spread Islamism over
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the whole earth. Hundreds of millions of Christians expect and hope for a
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millennium in which Jesus is to reign for a thousand years over the whole world
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before it is burnt up. The Hindoos [Hindus] expect another and final
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incarnation of Vishnu, who is to do great and wonderful things, I know not
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what. All these hopes are founded on real or pretended revelation....
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You and I hope for splendid improvements in human society, and
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vast amelioration in the condition of mankind. Our faith may be supposed by
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more rational arguments than any of the former."
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-- Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 September 1821)
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"The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession."
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-- Abraham Lincoln
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"The government of the United States is in no sense founded on
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the Christian religion."
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-- George Washington
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"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
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-- Napoleon
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"When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live
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a normal and wholesome life."
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-- Sigmund Freud
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, he has a better chance to live
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a
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