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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
This is often taken to mean that he was anti-religion, which he was not. He was opposed to the legal establishment of any one religion such as Christianity by the State such as was common throughout the rest of the Western world at the time. He saw, as did many other of the founders of the United States, that mixing the two, and had been commonplace in Europe for centuries, invariably led to a corruption of religion.
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Thank you Tom, it will be very interesting to read.
Back on track. In his time, during the French revolution, they executed a large number of royals and nobility, including the renknown Maria Antonietta. His father The Austrian King/emperor, I do not remember what exactly, did not do anything. But when the new rulers of France seized the Church properties, bang there they go all together marching against France. That was the start of the rise of Buonaparte.
The first time that I visited Glasgow, I went on top of a hill to one of the most ancient churches, there. There, the good Scots had the marks of the families
above the religious symbols. Not by chance. For me, coming from the churchiest country of all, that was quite a liberating sight.
