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Originally Posted by TheBigDog
Read my silence to mean that I am a full employee, full time student, full time husband, full time parent with more important things to do than amuse you by jumping through the hoops you hold up for me. I will get to this in good time, or perhaps instead of arrogantly baiting for answers you could supply the information in question and move the conversation forward.
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The "degrading acknowledgments" were the certificates the Baptist had to execute and file to be exempt from the tithe imposed under Certificate Law of October 1791.
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I stand by my remark that the Baptists were concerned about a political movement to create a state religion..
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Have you been polluting your mind with the crap written by David Barton?
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...and I am continuing to try and find documentation of it.
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Jefferson, in his "Eternal Hostility Letter" to Ben Rush, may have been referring to an attempt to establish a national religion. However, the Baptists didn't mention it in their letter. I know of no other reference to the supposed attempt to set up a national religion. But, I have no doubt that there were those who would have supported such an establishment. New England was full of Satan Worshiping Calvinists.
Don't make the mistake of reading the Baptists' reference, in their letter to Jefferson, to "our ancient constitution" to be a reference to the U. S. Constitution. The "ancient constitution" is the Connecticut Charter of 1626. In 1801, the U. S. Constitution was only 13 years old.
