THOMAS JEFFERSON

Thomas Jefferson is the perfect hero!

The many stories of his life is the most fascinating reading in our libraries today and I heartily recommend you partake of these many opportunities to read about the greatest mind, in my humble opinion, that America has ever produced. His life was awesome and inspiring!

Two statements attributed to his genius are the objects of my discussion.

The phrase "Separation of Church and State" apparently was contained in a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Baptist Association of Dansbury, Dansbury, Connecticut in which he observed the following.

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law regarding an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a separation between Church and State.

From what I can learn, Thomas Jefferson used the word "between" Church and State. This meant that there should be room, an interval, like space between two trees. He could just as well have said, "thus giving them space to grow and flourish together," a matter of semantics considering the times and the culture in which it was originally expressed.

Separationists have always taken Jefferson’s statement as a metaphor and as an accurate and historically significant summary of the intent of the First Amendment. Using this metaphor they came up with a sham and a hoax as a Separation of Church and State. This forces us to define the word metaphor. It means, "a figure of speech in which a term that ordinarily designates an object or idea is used to designate a dissimilar object or idea in order to suggest comparison or analogy." This definition is contrary to the mind of a man who is famous for the use of precise language. The "wall" thing in this letter was not a metaphor! Thomas Jefferson knew exactly what he was saying and the people knew what it said when they ratified these words in the First Amendment.

Let us look at this within the context of relative though, a process of human thinking with which Thomas Jefferson was very adept and proficient. We now recognize a theory of Separation of Church and State. This theory is not based on the clear and precise wording of the First Amendment but is admittedly based by separationists themselves on a letter that Jefferson wrote to the Baptists in Connecticut in 1802. At that time, the Bill of Rights, with the language of the First Amendment so plainly stated, had been ratified by the American people since December 15, 1791.

The language of the First Amendment calls for respect and cooperation between our government and churches. Any other approach is an insult to the people that wrote the laws and the people that ratified them so long ago.

This aberration of justice and the aftermath of the rulings of a liberal Supreme Court are currently causing me to experience a certain amount of persecution. No matter what anybody says I am being prohibited free exercise of my religious faith!

I usually call the following words, "A Journey, Into Common Sense!"

. . . .We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. . . .That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, . . . That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . . . .

The words "that all men are created equal" are very profound. To take these words literally and separately creates a human impossibility. Truth of Jefferson’s words can only be truthful when used in context with a series of thoughts and with the power of the relativity of all he is conveying with these thoughts! Individual uniqueness covers a lot of territory!

Most registered voters are incapable of using the power of relative thought, they don’t even think for themselves anymore. The trend of deliberately supporting apathy and ignorance was set into motion by the Roosevelt Administration beginning in the early 1930’s. The same liberal elitists like the segarationists who created the sham and hoax of Separation of Church and State are still plying their trade. They continue to distort the true meaning of these words by Jefferson into an exploitation of their liberal agenda into a system of dependency maintaining a form of slavery for a lot of our people. The race card is their latest ploy and they are playing it to the hilt.

Very few people in the nation actually believe that some races are better than others. Race by itself or skin color, are not the real causes of our prejudices and discrimination. We all prejudge and we all discriminate, it is a natural trait of any society. Defining these natural traits in terms of hate by a system of political correctness is the problem. They are now hell bent on making hate crimes, a system of thought control, the law of the land!

If God made you black, or for that matter white, that is something you cannot change. You will remain the same color all your life. In all other aspects of life you have a free will and you and you alone are free, in this nation, to make your own choices. Freedom makes you fair game to the saints and sinners of the whole wide world. The worse fate is getting caught up into the clutches of liberal dependency!

Faith is always reflected in the divine inspirations of the wise. We see this in the writings of Thomas Jefferson, especially the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. We have been deliberately led into a gradual decline and disconnect between faith and politics. We are barred from applying faith to public issues and policy by the control vultures that seek to secularize our laws and well being. We are labeled as religious fanatics or ignorant fundamentalists or both.

The following words from the introduction to my book "My Country ‘Tis of These" is worth repeating!

Where is the ladder leading forth
From this pit of iniquity
Where man has been led,
With words of deceit! Oh Mother Nature?
Lured by his own greed
And trapped by his own ambitions
By bartering a free soul for false security,
Then broadcasting invitations to his own kind
To dine at his table of misery and discontent
Attended by former guests
Now reduced to mere servants and court jesters!