(January 7, 2012 at 1:42 am)Minimalist Wrote: You're welcome.
You do understand that what Paine was talking about was protecting professors of religions from people who want a state religion so they can persecute non-believers.
Know any one like that?
but it says i hold it the duty of government to protect all professors not all people from professors. though he did believe people should be protected from a religion that has overstepped it's boundaries that's not what he was talking about. just as he speaks about christianity as a lie he wants to protect everyone's rights to do the same about any religion and to protect religious practice. that's what he was saying. the founding fathers did not write the first ammendment for nothing.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
