Comments on: Church and politics meet in Iowa http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/ Tracking the 2008 U.S. campaign Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:47:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Isaac Moore http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/#comment-334622 Isaac Moore Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:05:51 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/#comment-334622 Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. (Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782; from George Seldes) Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth. (Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782; from George Seldes)

]]> By: Isaac Moore http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/#comment-334621 Isaac Moore Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:02:59 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/#comment-334621 I believe in an America where the separation of Church and State is absolute--where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be a Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote--where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference--and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President I believe in an America where the separation of Church and State is absolute–where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be a Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote–where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference–and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President

]]> By: Isaac Moore http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/#comment-334620 Isaac Moore Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:50:31 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/#comment-334620 We have a very simple solution to all of this church and state talk. That solution is to keep them separate. Your God is YOUR business, and nobody else’s. We have a very simple solution to all of this church and state talk.
That solution is to keep them separate.

Your God is YOUR business, and nobody else’s.

]]> By: Walton Whittaker http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/#comment-334619 Walton Whittaker Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:36:16 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/12/31/church-and-politics-meet-in-iowa/#comment-334619 Just what we need-- a fundamentalist Southern Baptist, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, as President. What are we thinking? Our founding fathers must be upchucking in their graves. The last thing they wanted was a fundamentalist religious leader in the White House. Just what we need– a fundamentalist Southern Baptist, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, as President. What are we thinking? Our founding fathers must be upchucking in their graves. The last thing they wanted was a fundamentalist religious leader in the White House.

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