tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post7936245201848552148..comments2024-02-15T07:19:24.972-05:00Comments on The Daily Doubter: Moronity on the Radio FactorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-34735397104598892052007-11-17T11:05:00.000-05:002007-11-17T11:05:00.000-05:00The University of Virginia was the first secular u...The University of Virginia was the first secular university established in America, and here's the fuller quote:<BR/><BR/>"In conformity with the principles of our Constitution, which places all sects of religion on an equal footing, with the jealousies of the different sects in guarding that equality from encroachment and surprise, and with the sentiments of the legislature in favor of freedom of religion, manifested on former occasions, we have proposed no professor of divinity; and the rather as the proofs of the being of a God, the creator, preserver, and supreme ruler of the universe, the author of all the relations of morality, and of the laws and obligations these infer, will be within the province of the professor of ethics"Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-29392912288536905292007-11-17T10:22:00.000-05:002007-11-17T10:22:00.000-05:00A phrase like "separation of church and state" not...A phrase like "separation of church and state" not being in the Constitution does not mean that the concept is not there, nor does it mean that it is there. It is a metaphor that President Jefferson used in a letter. So how did he understand the First Amendment?<BR/><BR/>In his eyes the Constitution apparently allowed things that would raise eyebrows (at the very least) today. When he was president of the Washington, D.C. schools, he specified that the only source of reading tutorial would be the Holy Bible and the Watts Hymnal. Jefferson was the founder of the University of Virginia. From its inception in 1819, the school was governed, managed, and controlled by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Consider:<BR/><BR/>- In order to accommodate and perpetuate the religious beliefs and practices of students at the university, he recommended that students be allowed to meet on the campus to pray, worship, and receive religious instruction, or, if necessary, to meet and pray with their professors.<BR/><BR/>- He provided in his regulations for the University of Virginia that the main rotunda be used for religious worship under the regulations allowed to be prescribed by law.<BR/><BR/>- He proposed that all University of Virginia students be required to study as a matter of ethics "the proofs of the being of a God, the creator, preserver, and supreme ruler of the universe, the author of all relations within morality, and of the laws and obligations these infer."History Mattershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564109406277635090noreply@blogger.com