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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only people I saw openly prosletising were Jehova's Witnesses. Even Mormons didn't seem intrusive at all. I guess I don't get into those types of conversations with casual acquaintances, because frankly, I have no idea who's religious and who's not. People occasionally mention going to church, but I have never been offered to be saved or find Jesus LOL[/quote]

Imagine if an atheist or even agnostic president would get elected. If you can't imagine that, that's the reason why atheists feel that religion intrude too much into our lives.[/quote]

I think it was actually more common in the past than it is now. Jefferson, for example. [/quote]

Jefferson was not an atheist. He wasn't even agnostic. He was at the very least a deist with strong Christian ties. [/quote]

He was a deist who cut out all the miracle stories from the new testament to hear the clear words of Jesus of Nazareth.  It's known as the Jefferson Bible - a very slim volume, that can be purchased in bookstores and the original was on display at the Smithsonian a few years ago.

and he said this: "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823, quoted from James A Haught, "Breaking the Last Taboo" (1996)[/quote]

Hey, thanks!  I had forgotten about the Jefferson Bible.  Going to get one for my kids.  Signed, agnostic married to a Jesuit Catholic with two very questioning kids who we want to have Christianity as a comfort but also not squelch their sense of logic.[/quote]

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