Timely Jefferson Quote:

[G_j]

"My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there."

-Thomas Jefferson


http://nobeliefs.com/jefferson.htm

[bluesbassman]

1. Jefferson undrstood that the truth is the truth. It's men who pervert it. n/t

[truedelphi]

2. Bishop Desmond Tutu of So Africa does a riff on this -

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and
we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes.
When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land?"

[G_j]

3. Native Americans can vouch for that also! nt