True. Most likely, neither were Buddha, Moses, Christ, Mohammed or
Clinton. :-)
After all, history IS a story with all of the biases of the author and
subsequent translators.
Nothing new there.
FW
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 09:20 AM, John Lee wrote:
> Is Jefferson talking about priests or politicians???
>
> And old Tom, we are learning, wasn't the moral character that our
> history
> books want us to believe.
>
> John Lee
>
>
> At 09:47 AM 10/24/03 EDT, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>>
>> "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to
>> liberty.
>> He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in
>> return for
>> protection to his own."
>>
>> -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
>>
>> Wirt Atmar
>>
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