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Any government attempt to influence a man's conscience with respect to the duty which he owes to his Creator does injury if it requires a man to to spend even one mico-millionth of one second of his time to consider the government's religious advice or recommendation. A man should submit...

It all depends on whether the acknowledgement involves an assumption of civil authority over religion.

Over matters of religion.

That God exists is self-evident. He objects because he claims exclusive and absolute legislative authority over his religion, his kingdom and his church. He is a jealous God. Thus, it stands to reason that he would not like the U. S. Congress or any human authority trespassing upon his...

That saddens me because it means they reject the exclusive and absolute jurisdiction of Christ over their religion.

Those are my views exactly. In the long run the American people will probably have the type of religious liberty they want. I am disappointed that they want "under God" in the Pledge and "In God We Trust" on the coins. However, I am delighted that proposals such as the one in Missouri to...

I am starting a petition drive to demand that Congress tell us which God we were put under in 1954. We also want Congress to inform us of our duties to the God that Congress placed over us. Who will join me?

When someone cites an excerpt from a letter or other document, I read the entire letter or other document or at least enough paragraphs in a long document to understand the context of the statement. I prefer to read what the founders wrote, not what others said they wrote.

The memorials and petitions of the people presented to Congress from 1812 to 1830 regarding the Sunday Mail Dispute provide excellent insight into the views of the American people on the issue of religious liberty and the meaning of the Constitution. Some of them are online at the LOC website...

I don't mind Part R or Jerry F telling me how to worship as long as their don't have control of the levers of government and use the authority of the government for religious purposes. I have not missed the point. I know there was a huge chunk of the colonies that were not afraid of putting...

If you want to decide the issue of Separation of Church and State by whether or not the American people, at the time our system of government was established, wanted their governments to impose a religious test on civil officers, I have no objection. I believe the evidence will show that a...

The evidence suggests that the idea of separation of powers came from Montesquieu. Mr. MADISON. If it be essential to the preservation of liberty that the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers be separate, it is essential to a maintenance of the separation, that they should be...

In 1792, Congress defeated an attempt to pass a prayer recommendation resolution. The House passed it. But the Senate refused. The Second U. S. Congress was apparently having second thoughts on wheter it was proper for the national government to be issuing reliigous recommendations to...

No, because there is no government authority over religion or civil laws regarding relgion to be influenced.

Freedom of Religion is not just freedom from persection. It is freedom from any government influence on one's duties to his Creator. Not if "Christian principles" include the duty which we owe to our Creator. What are the Christian principles you are talking about? The Separation of...

That Perfect Creator gave the atheist and the Hindu the same right of individual choice in matters of religion that he gave you and me. God is Lord of the conscience of the atheist and the Hindu; and the government has no authority over their religions.

One of those unalienable rights was the right of the people to be "as free as the air they breathe" from government influence on thier religion.

Why not? Just remove "In God We Trust" from the nation's coins and "under God" from the pledge; and restore the Separation of Church and State to the way it was during the Early Days of Republic; when God was never made the object of human law; and Congress refused to pass joint resolutions...

I fight for James Madison's vision of religious liberty because it was right the day the day Christ rose from the dead and it is right in 2006. The less government has to do with relgion the more true religion there will be.

No government has any legitimate authority to advise the people regarding their religion. God alone is Lord of the conscience.