The problem? That's not any more honest than his first attempt. It is still not the "full fledged" quote. Here's the quote, without Limbaugh's deceitful manipulation.
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
Ahh . . . Why did Rush leave that middle part out, even with a second try? Could it be, just possibly, that the Maha Rushie is up to something . . . shady? When you can figure out why Rush Limbaugh hid the words "Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry" from you, you will be "one" with the Founding Fathers' "Natures' God".
Despite the historical revisionist nonsense that is being propagated by Limbaugh, America was designed by the Founding Fathers to be a secular nation.
In the words of the First President of the United States, George Washington:
"We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In the enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States."
In the words of the second President of the United States, John Adams:
"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?"
The Treaty of Tripoli, signed by Adams:
Art. 11. "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself . . ."
In the words of the author of the Declaration of Independence and two term, third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson:
"I contemplate with soveriegn reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."
In the words of the "Father of the Constitution", and two term, fourth President of the United States, James Madison:
"It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Govt. could not stand without the prop of a Religious establishment; & that the Xn. [Christian] religion itself, would perish if not supported by the legal provision for its Clergy. The experience of Virginia conspicuously corroborates the disproof of both opinions. The Civil Govt. tho' bereft of everything like an associated hierarchy possesses the requisite stability and performs its functions with complete success; Whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood, & the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the Church from the State."
There is little doubt that the Founders did not want to see the intermingling of religion and government, either then, or in the future. It is obvious that they did not want Presidents, threatened with global conflict, to turn to Judeo-Christian eschatology to base their decisions on. Rush Limbaugh disagrees, and, this is the really scary part, he also has that "Messiah complex".
It is that Messiah complex of Limbaugh's that, without doubt, must have the world's nuclear superpowers, that are involved in the START Treaty, "as nervous as a bunch of cats in a room full of rocking chairs". Those world leaders have access to CSPAN, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, the Internet, live internet radio, and The Rush Limbaugh Show, right?
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