Food for thought in time for Independence Day. The following excerpt is taken from Garrett Epps’s article, Constitutional Myth #4: The Constitution Doesn’t Separate Church and State:
Patriots like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison were profoundly skeptical about the claims of what they called “revealed religion.” As children of the 18th-century Enlightenment, they stressed reason and scientific observation as a means of discovering the nature of “Providence,” the power that had created the world. Jefferson, for example, took a pair of scissors to the Christian New Testament and cut out every passage that suggested a divine origin and mission for Jesus. In their long correspondence, Jefferson and John Adams swapped frequent witticisms about the presumption of the clergy. (TheAtlantic.com, June 15, 2011.)
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