Thanks, Mary Ann. I loved the project but will admit it was as big as anything I have ever published. Lots of time. I'll have to see how it turns out -- how many people actually pay attention.
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. 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. It is easier to acquire them, and to effect this, they have perverted the best religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes. With the lawyers it is a new thing. They have, in the mother country, been generally the primest supporters of the free principles of their constitution. But there, too, they have changed."
Thanks.
Well done!
You just summerized years of my study into one easily understandable short story. I love t!
I hope you write on subjects like this again! [And P.S. I'm a regular listener of Howerton's. ]
Thanks, Mary Ann. I loved the project but will admit it was as big as anything I have ever published. Lots of time. I'll have to see how it turns out -- how many people actually pay attention.
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. 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. It is easier to acquire them, and to effect this, they have perverted the best religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes. With the lawyers it is a new thing. They have, in the mother country, been generally the primest supporters of the free principles of their constitution. But there, too, they have changed."
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to Horatio G. Spafford (17 March 1814).
Jefferson was an interesting guy. Currently watching the 6-part Netflix documentary.
I didn't know there was a Netflix documentary!!! Will start watching tonight.
Interesting ideas on Jesus. Just ordered the Jefferson bible. How religion is manipulated by the Trotskyites.