SlackMaster
Well-known member
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2011
- Messages
- 598
- Reaction score
- 399
- Location
- Dallas, TX
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Undisclosed
Just imagine if he had something like this.
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Some here would have likely demanded his expulsion from the history books even for a statement like that.
Avalon Project - Washington's Farewell Address 1796
No... not expulsion from the history books. I do disagree with his statement that people can't be moral without God.
Once again though, just because politicians in the past have used their position to further religion, doesn't make it any less of an establishment clause violation.