Re: Discrimination

[Gene Garman]

Voluntary. The absence of government: "No religious test" and "no law respecting an establishment of religion." Religion is not to be established by law or government at any level. Government is the essence of coercion. The essence of the religion commandments of the Constitution is voluntarism in matters of religion. What good is religion if not voluntary?

Ol' Benjamin Franklin once observed: "When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend of its being a bad one" (Works of Benjamin Franklin, 13:506).

Gene Garman





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What meaning do you ascribe to the word "free?"

 

-- Daniel Bort

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