Always More Productive

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.  I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [not our?] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
—    George Washington,
First President of the United States in a letter to Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, June 22, 1792
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On This Day In:
2013	Is Not
2012	Loosely Translated
2011	Your Opinions Are Not My Facts

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