The thought for today:
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say that there are twenty gods or no god. - Thomas JeffersonMy new job has me working with some retired soldiers that have been contracted to the Army to teach the job that they worked many years doing. One of them in particular is very adamantly a conservative from the religious right. As you may have predicted this has caused more than a few discussions of opinions already. Our talk today covered, among other things, the intentionally secular nature of our constitution. Since the topic shifted with him still unconvinced, I did a little research, and this quote, from arguably the greatest founding father stood out amongst quotes from many others as the most blatant. Our country was founded in order to protect the rights of the smallest minority so long as those rights did not infringe upon the rights of anyone else. This is perhaps something we should all reflect upon as we go throughout this week.
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