Since we are on meme here, here's another quote:

"People like their legislators to be Christians, but they don't like Christians to be their legislators." - Hillard Selck, Chairman, Missouri Republican Party, National Commiteeman Republican National Committee (RIP).

On Sep 3, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Walter Waddell wrote:

> Dear Folks,
> 
> Every "study of human experience" enjoys a "base line"; hence:
> 
> “….the same can be said of the enterprise launched on July 4, 1776. The hardheaded lawyers, merchants, farmers, and slave holding plantation owners gathered in Philadelphia that summer did not set out to create a church. They founded a republic. Their purpose was not to save mankind. It was to ensure that people like themselves enjoyed unencumbered access to the Jeffersonian trinity.” - Andrew J. Bacevich
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Very Respectfully,
> 
> W. R.(Ray) Waddell, Jr.
> 
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