First, there is no such phrase in the First Amendment. That was made up by an activist judiciary long after the Founders were dead.
Second, this is evidence of precisely the opposite. If Christianity has been enshrined as the official religion of the United States for the last two centuries or so, the vast majority of the vileness that assails us today would never have gotten off the ground.
The Founders intended to do this in a workaround way by explicitly banning nonwhite immigration but that eventually fell through in the early 1900s.
Jefferson was fairly clear that government should not endorse specific religions. His views are representative of at least half the founders, many who were deists (especially the more influential individuals). I'm not implying that it was a good idea for the bill of rights to extend beyond the federal government (those later activist judges post civil-war), instead that those founders expected state governments to stay out of religion. I'm not aware of any impartial source that deduces the likely stance of the deist founders on state legislatures being allowed to monument the 10 commandments.
See, liberals always spout that off too. And yet the legislation I cited was passed by the same men, effectively doing exactly what I said.
As for their expectations of individual states, Pennsylvania at the time outlawed several religions, while eventually Mormonism was outlawed in nearly every state.
What Jefferson wrote outside of legislation was his own opinions, and is not actually reflected in any laws. Funny huh?
Would this be the same Jefferson whose statues are being torn down by these same sorts of people demanding "freedom of expression" for their statues to Satan?
In the past I might have cared about stunts like this, but now that statues of the people who founded my country are being torn down, I find it hard to.
First, there is no such phrase in the First Amendment. That was made up by an activist judiciary long after the Founders were dead.
Second, this is evidence of precisely the opposite. If Christianity has been enshrined as the official religion of the United States for the last two centuries or so, the vast majority of the vileness that assails us today would never have gotten off the ground.
The Founders intended to do this in a workaround way by explicitly banning nonwhite immigration but that eventually fell through in the early 1900s.
https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html
Jefferson was fairly clear that government should not endorse specific religions. His views are representative of at least half the founders, many who were deists (especially the more influential individuals). I'm not implying that it was a good idea for the bill of rights to extend beyond the federal government (those later activist judges post civil-war), instead that those founders expected state governments to stay out of religion. I'm not aware of any impartial source that deduces the likely stance of the deist founders on state legislatures being allowed to monument the 10 commandments.
See, liberals always spout that off too. And yet the legislation I cited was passed by the same men, effectively doing exactly what I said.
As for their expectations of individual states, Pennsylvania at the time outlawed several religions, while eventually Mormonism was outlawed in nearly every state.
What Jefferson wrote outside of legislation was his own opinions, and is not actually reflected in any laws. Funny huh?
Would this be the same Jefferson whose statues are being torn down by these same sorts of people demanding "freedom of expression" for their statues to Satan?
In the past I might have cared about stunts like this, but now that statues of the people who founded my country are being torn down, I find it hard to.
Yeah between torn statues and the non levayan satanists being pathetically transparent grifts, I have no problem with this incident.