by RyanHale » Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:57 pm
Good heavens. Now we have two candidates trying to out "Christianize" the other. Even worse, we have Baptist profs and ministers involving themselves in the political process.
Maybe a little John Leland reminder would help ... why does the faith of any candidate matter since we are electing representatives to handle secular matters, not guard our orthodoxy.
“Government has no more to do with the religious opinions of men than it has with the principles of mathematics. Let every man speak freely without fear, maintain the principles that he believes, worship according to his own faith, either one God, three Gods, no God or twenty Gods; and let government protect him in so doing, i.e., see that he meets with no personal abuse, or loss of property, for his religious opinions....”
--- John Leland, Colonial Virginia Baptist minister and religious liberty advocate, The Rights of Conscience Inalienable, 1791 pamphlet.