The Benjamin Franklin portion a WELL KNOWN Fraud:
Anti-Semitic Myth: The Franklin "Prophecy" - Part 1 (4 more parts)
http://www.adl.org/special_reports/f...klin_intro.asp
The George Washington 'quote' ALSO A Fraud!
Urban Legends Reference Pages: George Washington on Jews
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/thejews.asp
George Washington's letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...l/bigotry.html
“To Bigotry No Sanction, to Persecution No Assistance” - George Washington’s Letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island
Quote:
Washington’s concluding paragraph perfectly expresses the ideal relationship among the government, its individual citizens and religious groups:"May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid." Washington closed with an invocation: “May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.”
The letter, a foundation stone of American religious liberty and the principle of separation between church and state, is signed, simply, “G. Washington.” Each year, Newport’s Congregation Kahal Kadosh Yeshuat Israel, now known as the Touro Synagogue, re-reads Washington’s letter in a public ceremony. The words deserve repetition.
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Is there a GARBAGE BIN for strings and posters like this?
WHERE ARE THE MODERATORS?