04/17/05

The greatest reverence the founding fathers showed was their profound love of this world, and of man's place in it. At this late date, the religionists who seek to obliterate history and the actual founding principles of this country ought to give up their dishonest and ignorant battle to weld state and religion together once again. It is long past time for them to join the twenty-first century -- or, at the very least, the eighteenth. The sole and immensely destructive distinction that these religionists can claim is that they seek to reverse history, with their wretched embrace of the Dark and Middle Ages. And that is precisely where they would take all the rest of us, if they have their way...

http://coldfury.com/reason/?p=387

from The Light of Reason, by Arthur Silber


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp