[Old School Hound]

The Founders understood the tyranny and bondage created by religion.... 


“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”

---Thomas Jefferson to John Adams



 “This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.”

---John Adams


“The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”

---1797 Treaty of Tripoli signed by Founding Father John Adams


 “I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved– the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!”

---John Adams — letter to Thomas Jefferson


 “Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear.”

---Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787


“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.”

---Thomas Paine


“What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.”

---Thomas Paine


“The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.”

---Thomas Paine


“Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced an 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”


“There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.”

---Thomas Jefferson


“Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.”

---Thomas Paine

 “It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.”

---Thomas Paine


“The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole cartloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.”

---John Adams


“I looked around for God’s judgments, but saw no signs of them.”

Ben Franklin


“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.”

---James Madison — Letter to Wm. Bradford, April 1, 1774

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When does Dr. Jeremiah predict the end to come?      I want to check a few things off my bucket list before the Tribulation starts.

I'm not listening to Pat Robertson again.   

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