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�You got no priests, you got no infidels�
8th January 2011
�His character and doctrines have received still greater injury from
those who pretend to be his special disciples, and who have disfigured
and sophisticated his actions and precepts, from views of personal
interest, so as to induce the unthinking part of mankind to throw off
the whole system in disgust, and to pass sentence as an impostor on
the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime
character that ever has been exhibited to man.� TJ, 1803
You may not want to pay too much attention to this. These were the
thoughts of arguably the greatest American who ever lived, but in our
streamlined (read: dumbed down) world, the ideas he expressed are
probably too complex, and, viewed in the context of the daily bottom
line, too conceptually obsolete to be of actual use to you. Plus, if
you have received an American public school education after 1970, you
likely will be unable to puzzle out his archaic language because it is
not in the billboard style you have become used to that has eroded
your ability to think far beyond what you will ever realize.
For those students transferring in from the Advanced Ebonics class
shown daily on CNN, modern translations of this writer�s antique
sentence structure will follow each of his statements in brackets.
And this is guy who invented our system of weights and measures, our
university system, and a definition of freedom that is pretty much
accepted by everyone in the world who can still think. Here�s what he
said. Try to actually understand the words and what they mean. You may
wish to repeat certain phrases. Feel free to do so.
�I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man.�
[Now that�s what I call a robust drinking toast!]
[How ironic that he could not see, way back then, that he was swearing
TO a tyranny to oppose that very tyranny. Is that too complex for you?
Let�s let him try to make it clearer.]
�Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there
be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of
blindfolded fear.�
[Now we�re into the meat of the matter. To translate that into
contemporary jargon, it means: God gave you a brain, and it�s a sin
not to use it. Which means that every time you hear �that�s something
we just can�t talk about,� the subliminal meaning of it is that you
may be protecting your own religion, but you�re going against God.]
Jefferson continues:
�Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely
between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his
faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach
actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence
that act of the whole American people which declared that their
legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a
wall of separation between church and State.�
[This is the sense of individual liberty that America was founded
upon. Anyone who opposes this sentiment does not fall into the
category of honest man, and never will. Which leads us to his
penultimate pronouncement about all governments, the one that
absolutely must be followed if individual freedom is ever to be
achieved and preserved.]
�History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people
maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of
ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will
always avail themselves for their own purposes.
[No better illustration is available than now, when presidents wearing
microphones concealed inside their jackets to take instructions on
what to say to the public suddenly paroxysm out, and say, �Hold it.
I�m getting a message from God,� as the 43rd president of the United
States � Bush the More Retarded � once did.]
Jefferson again. Often seen etched in copper.
�In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to
liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his
abuses in return for protection to his own.�
[Quite relevant to the sexual abuse of children that plagues all
denominations, which didn�t really begin, BTW, until Jewish
homosexuals infiltrated Catholic seminaries.]
�My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there
had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on
the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it
pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read
in that system only what is really there.�
[A paragraph that stands the test of time, and cannot be improved.]
�Priests...dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of
daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions
of the duperies on which they live.�
[And what will that result in?]
�Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against
absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the
sport of every wind.
[The sport of every wind, he said in 1803. Today, that would come out
as something like �the victim of every hustler�; absurdities most
monstrous would evolve into today�s lingo as �slavery of thought.�]
Jefferson makes his choice.
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
[That vindicates all those hostile homeowners who told all those
missionaries who came to the front door with a deal for all eternity
to GET THE HELL OFF MY PROPERTY AND NEVER COME BACK!]
[I�ll stop these cloying subtitles now. It was just a trick to get the
kids to read this far.]
Yet, for all his hostility to the pious men in black robes, Jefferson
forever cherished the core ideals of the savior, but he did it
modestly and sensibly, a belief for himself, when he said . . .
� . . . such are the fragments remaining as to show a master workman,
and that his system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime
probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than
those of any of the ancient philosophers. His character and doctrines
have received still greater injury from those who pretend to be his
special disciples, and who have disfigured and sophisticated his
actions and precepts, from views of personal interest, so as to induce
the unthinking part of mankind to throw off the whole system in
disgust, and to pass sentence as an impostor on the most innocent, the
most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has
been exhibited to man.�
[So, why don�t you tell us how you really feel, Mr. President,
greatest president America ever had? Tell us about what these
so-called representatives of the highest power have done to our
cherished ideals.]
�They have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of
schismatising followers, who have found an interest in sophisticating
and perverting the simple doctrines he taught by engrafting on them
the mysticisms of a Grecian sophist, frittering them into subtleties,
and obscuring them with jargon, until they have caused good men to
reject the whole in disgust, and to view Jesus himself as an impostor.
Notwithstanding these disadvantages, a system of morals is presented
to us, which, if filled up in the true style and spirit of the rich
fragments he left us, would be the most perfect and sublime that has
ever been taught by man. The question of his being a member of the
Godhead, or in direct communication with it, claimed for him by some
of his followers, and denied by others, is foreign to the present
view, which is merely an estimate of the intrinsic merit of his
doctrines.
1. He corrected the Deism of the Jews, confirming them in their belief
of one only God, and giving them juster notions of his attributes and
government.
2. His moral doctrines, relating to kindred and friends, were more
pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers,
and greatly more so than those of the Jews; and they went far beyond
both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and
friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering
all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common
wants and common aids. A development of this head will evince the
peculiar superiority of the system of Jesus over all others.
3. The precepts of philosophy, and of the Hebrew code, laid hold of
actions only. He pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man; erected
his tribunal in the region of his thoughts, and purified the waters at
the fountain head.
4. He taught, emphatically, the doctrines of a future state, which was
either doubted, or disbelieved by the Jews; and wielded it with
efficacy, as an important incentive, supplementary to the other
motives to moral conduct.
Jefferson didn�t stop there.
In consequence of some conversation with Dr. Rush, in the year
1798-99, I had promised some day to write him a letter giving him my
view of the Christian system. I have reflected often on it since, and
even sketched the outlines in my own mind.
I should first take a general view of the moral doctrines of the most
remarkable of the ancient philosophers, of whose ethics we have
sufficient information to make an estimate, say of Pythagoras,
Epicurus, Epictetus, Socrates, Cicero, Seneca, Antoninus. I should do
justice to the branches of morality they have treated well; but point
out the importance of those in which they are deficient.
I should then take a view of the deism and ethics of the Jews, and
show in what a degraded state they were, and the necessity they
presented of a reformation.
I should proceed to a view of the life, character, and doctrines of
Jesus, who sensible of incorrectness of their ideas of the Deity, and
of morality, endeavored to bring them to the principles of a pure
deism, and more just notions of the attributes of God, to reform their
moral doctrines to the standard of reason, justice and philanthropy,
and to inculcate the belief of a future state.
This view would purposely omit the question of his divinity, and even
his inspiration. To do him justice, it would be necessary to remark
the disadvantages his doctrines have had to encounter, not having been
committed to writing by himself, but by the most unlettered of men, by
memory, long after they had heard them from him; when much was
forgotten, much misunderstood, and presented in very paradoxical
shapes.
Yet such are the fragments remaining as to show a master workman, and
that his system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime
probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than
those of any of the ancient philosophers.
His character and doctrines have received still greater injury from
those who pretend to be his special disciples, and who have disfigured
and sophisticated his actions and precepts, from views of personal
interest, so as to induce the unthinking part of mankind to throw off
the whole system in disgust, and to pass sentence as an impostor on
the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime
character that ever has been exhibited to man.
Yes, I know I�m repeating this. Please repeat it to yourself one more
time, and think about what it means, and what it doesn�t.
Source: http://www.sullivan-county.com/deism/ffnc.htm
John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida,
urging people to understand that no problem in the world can be
authentically addressed without first analyzing tangents caused by
Jewish perfidy, which has subverted and diminished every aspect of
human endeavor throughout history. Support for his work is wholly
derived from people who can understand what he�s saying and know what
it means.
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