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This is precisely why it is important to keep religion out of our secular republic. If religion is allowed to trespass into secular institutions, the different sects/denominations would soon be at each others throats over the proper interpretation of religious dogma and that is detrimental to a civil society. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society. -- George Washington - letter to Edward Newenham, 1792
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00:52 +0000

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