Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Why Religion is Not the Answer: The Perils of Religious Patriotism (Student Essay contest 4th place)
"The Constitution is a miracle not of God, but of compromise and erudition. In preparation for the Constitutional Convention, James Madison ordered books from his close friend, Thomas Jefferson. Through his extensive reading list, we can see the names which inspired the Constitution — Cicero, Herodotus, Montesquieu, Locke, Hume, Aristotle, Voltaire, Plutarch — Madison looked across antiquity and the enlightenment for ideas, but there was not a holy book in sight. Madison and Jefferson recognized God only in the sense of a being who created the universe, then sat back to enjoy its handiwork. (Jefferson also famously owned a copy of the bible in which he had removed all the dogmatic and supernatural passages.)..."
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