Jefferson: "Question with boldness even the existence of a god"

[kpete]

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As a Jeffersonian deist, it bewilders me that any one believes in a God so sensitive that He would punish His creation for using His greatest gift — the ability to wonder, to create, to think — in sizing up what it’s all about.

Let’s get this straight. The appropriate reaction to a cartoonist who’s drawn something offensive isn’t murder. You don’t kill a cartoonist.

You give him a wedgie.

some really good REASON here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/10/1356821/-Created-in-His-image-thoughts-on-God-Charlie

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial.

What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

James Madison