emuwc2000@yahoo.com (Emilie Gruchow) wrote in message news:<44df026a.0307140902.56ad3c12@posting.google.com>...
> If anything, Jefferson's manner of speaking certainly counters any
> arguments that the founding father was a devoted man of the Christian
> church. Though I do agree with his acceptance of humanity's tendency
> to duke it out in large groups every 150 years or so, I would shy away
> from assigning it to a higher calling of nature (ie Deism). I am not
> completely dismissive of religion myself, though I am skeptical, but
> conducting one's primeval head butting in the name of some higher
> power seems a stretch even to the agnostics on this side of the pond.
>
> elag <elag@cloud9.net> wrote in message news:<3F124E55.A4BA3D3B@cloud9.net>...
> > The storming of the Bastille on July 14 and its immediate consequences
> > showed what the French Revolution was all about, namely,
> > the consequence of a moral collapse that had been prepared by the
> > left-wing, radical chic, literati of its day...
> >
> > http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Paris/Monuments-Paris/Bastille.shtml
> >
> > http://www.history.sfasu.edu/jackson/232/Test2/french_revolution.htm
> >
> > What country before ever existed a century & a half without a rebellion?
> > & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not
> > warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of
> > resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to
> > facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century
> > or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
> > blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure. --- Thomas Jefferson
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