"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
— -- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780, quoted from Adrienne Koch, ed., The American Enlightenment: The Shaping of the American Experiment and a Free Society, New York: George Braziller, 1965, p. 93.
I just want to honor you for that,
and thankyou for sharing that.
I've kept remembering that McCain, in addition to this now, was a key person who gave us the MCA. Except now he's all wrapped up in the "maverick" image. I guess the maverick image is the best one to use after forcing people off their land and destroying the Constitution. Smoke & mirrors; I'd better stop now.