Subject: Re: Our Founding Fathers Said What Now?
"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole cartloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity." — John Adams

"Trumpery" - heh, heh...

I'll add one more to your excellent litany of the numerous downsides of Christianity and organized religion in general. From today's A.Word.A.Day mailing - https://wordsmith.org/words/ly...

"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." — Dan Barker, former preacher, musician (b. 25 Jun 1949)