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Who said that?
Were you paying attention?
What and Why?
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“For where there is such a variety of sects there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.”
James Madison
100
What group saw religion as a matter of personal belief and choice largely irrelevant to government?
Legal Secularists
100
What was Thomas Jefferson’s single most despicable act?
Founding the University of Virginia... Go Hokies!
200
The Constitution had “erected a wall of separation between church and state.”
Thomas Jefferson
200
Whose findings brought about a rise in agnosticism and athiesm?
Darwin
200
Who is considered the father of religious liberty in America and why?
James Madison
300
On the subject of freedom of conscience: “To impose such things, therefore, upon any people, contrary to their own judgment, is, in effect, to command them to offend God.”
John Locke
300
What caused the emergence of legal secularism in America?
Jewish Immigration
300
Who did not believe that the first amendment regarding religion was necessary?
James Madison. He argued that religious diversity would guarantee religious freedom by itself.
400
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”
Thomas Jefferson
400
What did the author (Feldman) see as the solution to bring unity to society, despite religious diversity.
Symbolic Inclusion
400
Why do we have a First Amendment prohibiting the establishment of religion and protecting the free exercise thereof?
The answer combines principle and politics. The principle reason was to protect the liberty of conscience of religious dissenters. The political reason was that no one in the new U.S. opposed the idea of religious liberty, and given the religious diversity among Americans, no one denomination seriously believed it could establish a national religion of its own.