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"But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."
Thomas Jefferson
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8 comments:
Most of the founders were Enlightenment supporting deists.
Yep. Thomas Jefferson wrote a bible without the miracles.
Or, it could be said that he was influenced deeply by Aristotle and wrote a constitution based on his writings.
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That's basically what the Renaissance was all about: The rediscovery of the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and the DECHRISTIANIZING of society. If you read the Bible it is so obviously clear that it has nothing to do with the constitution that it if a constitution were based upon it, it would contradict most of its central rights.
Anything based on the bible is typically contradictory because the bible is inherently contradictory.
I still think Jefferson was influences significantly by Jesus, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered with the bible at all.
I think that the Christian values that aligned with Enlightenment ideals and arguments were championed, but the other values, you know 80% of them, were discarded. In terms of the times, Jefferson was the equivalent of a humanist non-believer in his day.
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