I noticed in all of this, you didn't actually try to correct anything..
So would you disagree or agree with the poster who seems to think that if you mix an allegedly benevolent religion with government you are going to get a benevolent government? How does history bear your answer out?
First, repeating this, as you seemingly missed it.
Some of Jefferson's actual writings on religious freedom (from the Virginia state statutes)
VIRGINIA STATUTE FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
[Sec. 1]
Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as it was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavouring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness, and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards, which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his fellow-citizens he has a natural right; that it tends only to corrupt the principles of that religion it is meant to encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments, those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though indeed these are criminal who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way; that
to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once
destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that
truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them:
http://www.search.com/ref...ute_for_Religious_FreedomLet Congress make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion. Jefferson specifically said that limiting religious speech is dangerous.
Secondly, if you were to look at all of Christian history -
History of the Christian Church, 8 Volumes -
you would discover that your knowledge of the Christian church:
(the crusades (except the first one)
the Inquisition (mostly)
Henry VIII and the sacking of the monasteries
Oliver Cromwell and his persecution of Irish Catholics
the Salem Witch Trials)covers about
1% of the history of the church. You have ignored, or are ignorant of, the church's work in education, healthcare, care of orphans, feeding the starving, and all other charity works. You also conveniently ignore the persecution of Christians that were burned, fed to lions, or otherwise murdered wholesale. And you've evidently missed the fact that the crusades were intended to drive back the Muslim invaders...because their policy of "convert or die" wasn't very nice, either.