tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27549167.post3937376709343788044..comments2023-09-25T06:48:48.316-06:00Comments on Magic Valley Mormon: Founders on God & Country: John AdamsCameronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016275707476655364noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27549167.post-52229048764035664902008-07-17T22:56:00.000-06:002008-07-17T22:56:00.000-06:00Your quote's made up.Your quote's <A HREF="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Adams#Disputed" REL="nofollow">made up.</A>Cameronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06016275707476655364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27549167.post-80721197953404099232008-07-11T07:23:00.000-06:002008-07-11T07:23:00.000-06:00"The United States of America have exhibited, perh..."The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses." John Adams<BR/><BR/>"God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world."<BR/>-- John Adams, "this awful blashpemy" that he refers to is the myth of the Incarnation of Christ, from Ira D Cardiff, What Great Men Think of Religion, quoted from James A Haught, ed, 2000 Years of DisbeliefCharles Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975241234146573609noreply@blogger.com