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Jefferson-Paine Society of Friends

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Founder: Jefferson-Paine Society, an organization dedicated to promoting knowledge of the religious values of Thomas Jefferson & Thomas Paine while investigating and exposing propaganda. A Congregation of the Universal Life Church, Modesto, CA. To learn more about the Jefferson-Paine Society

We believe with Thomas Jefferson that "Reason and Free Inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Truth can stand by itself."

"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion." Havelock Ellis Impressions and Comments, 1914

"I have sworn upon the altar of God ("Mind or Reason") eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson

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Bill Ronan, Humanist Pastoral Counselor (HSOF)

527 2nd St. NE, Hopkins, MN 55343
Tel/Fax: 952-933-3460
BillRonan@USFamily.net
Office hours M-F 8:00am to 9:00pm

Until sufficient size is obtained we will meet conjointly with the Minnesota Humanist Association, Free Thinking Families, Etc

Our Belief
Our Objective: Eternal Progression
Our Goal: A Fuller Life For Everyone
Our Slogan: To Live And Help Live

The Jefferson-Paine Society of Friends has no traditional doctrine. We as an Organization believe in that which is right. Each individual has the privilege and responsibility to determine what is right for him - as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others. We do not stand between you and your God (Which we and Thomas Jefferson define as "Mind" or "Reason" and join Thomas Paine who wrote, "My mind is my church").

We are active advocates of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

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We are Advocates of the Good Life

We want - to be competent, to be proficient, to be cooperative, to love our fellow man, to appreciate, to be humble, to be honest, to be moral, to emphasize clear thinking, open scientific inquiry, even an imaginative scientific viewpoint, treasuring the imaginative, creative and evaluative aspects of the mind and reason. To find and encourage the next generation of curious, concerned men and women who strive to become rational thinkers, promote and defend reason, freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor, to live positively and to be what we profess.

We believe with Thomas Jefferson that "Reason and Free Inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Truth can stand by itself." We agree with Jefferson that: "A person once surrendering reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck." We join with Jefferson in his statement. "I have sworn upon the altar of God ("Mind or Reason") eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

We also agree with Thomas Paine who said, "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

Jefferson quotes: In a letter to John Adams dated April 11, 1823, 2nd in letter to James Smith, dated 1822, 3rd letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800 Thomas Paine Quotes: From the "Age of Reason"

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A quiz on ideas of political/religious importance. What is your Political Propaganda Quotient? (PPQ)

Which of these statements do you agree with and think that a similar moral and religious person would say and feel?

Who would you rather have, and therefore who would you deserve, as a political leader in your life?

(A) for agree and (D) for disagree

A D As a Christian . . . I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
A D For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
A D . . . in the Bible we find the text, 'That which is neither hot nor cold will I spew out of my mouth.' (Rev. 3:16-19) This utterance of the great Nazarene has kept its profound validity until the present day.
A D . . .the Government . . .regards Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation.
A D It is no chance that religions are more stable than constitutional forms. Generally they tend to sink their roots deeper into the soil; they would be unthinkable in the absence of the masses of the people.
A D Question with boldness even the existence of a God because if there be one he must approve more of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
A D I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
A D It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing than to believe what is wrong.
A D On the dogmas of religion . . . all mankind . . . have been quarreling, fighting, burning ands torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.
A D Man once surrendering reason has no remaining guard against absurdities . . . Gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.
A D An angel still rides in the whirlwind (The whirlwind symbolizes a medium for the voice of God in the Books of Job and Ezekiel).
A D Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
A D We are in a conflict between good and evil, and we will call evil by its name.
A D And the light shines in the darkness. And the darkness will not overcome it.
A D There's power, wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of our people.
A D . . . only believers in Jesus go to heaven.
A D God has blessed a group to destroy the evildoers.
A D (It) is an individual duty for every believer in God. . . with God's help -- call on everyone who believes in God . . .to comply with God's order.
A D We praise God, seek His help, and ask for His forgiveness.
A D We seek refuge in God from the evils of our souls and our bad deeds.
A D A person who is guided by God will never be misguided by anyone and a person who is misguided by God can never be guided by anyone.
A D All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
A D The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
A D My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
A D Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those, which spring from any other cause.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials

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How well do you really know and understand the ideas of history?

If you agreed with the opinions given in statements 1-5 then you would be in agreement with speeches given by Adolf Hitler, from the book My New Order, by Adolf Hitler. If you agreed with the last 5 statements 6-10 you would be in agreement with Thomas Jefferson written in his letters to friends and associates inn the book Thomas Jefferson's Freethought Legacy. Statements 11- 16 come from George W. Bush, as quoted in Newsweek, March 10, 2003. Statements 17-21 Come from Osama Bin Laden, Statement 17 From videotaped statement broadcast by Al Jazeera, October 7, 2001, Statement 18 From World Islamic Front Statement, February 23, 1998, Statements 19-21 from BBC Saturday, World: Monitoring: Media reports 3 November, 2001, 23:12 GMT. Where did you fall? 22 and 23 are From Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason, 24 is from Abe Lincoln in an 1862 letter to JS Wakefield and 25 is from George Washington in a Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, June 22, 1792

Are you surprised as to who sounds like each other?

This Quiz has been supplied by the Jefferson-Paine Society of Friends, a non-profit, be default, religious organization advocating the position that religion does not have to be irrational is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson's definition of God, that being "Reason or Mind" and to encourage awareness of propaganda and the use of reason.

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Quotes by other famous people on the subject of religion and politics

Kirby J. Hensley ( founder of the Universal Life Church)
“Every church should lose its tax exempt status including this one.”

George Washington
"Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, June 22, 1792

James Madison
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect."

Letter to William Bradford, Jr., April 1, 1774

"Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which pervades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest."

Spoken at the Virginia convention on the ratification of the Constitution, June 1778

Ethan Allen
"In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue."
Reason, the Only Oracle of Man

Thomas Paine
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
The Age of Reason

Abe Lincoln

"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
1862 letter to JS Wakefield

William James
Religion, in short, is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."

The Varieties of religious Experience, 1902

Mark Twain
". . .No church property is taxed, and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up for the deficit in the public income thus caused.

Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Following the Equator
"It ain't those parts of the bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand."
Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?

In North American Review, April 1902
" . . . If man continues in the direction of enlightenment, his religious practice may. In the end, attain some semblance of human decency."

Thomas Edison
"All religion is Bunk."

Luther Burbank
"Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of scientific truth as they would a cold bath plunge."
Why I am an Infidel

Albert Einstein
"The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible."
Quoted by EH Cotton in Has Science Discovered God? 1931

Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
Quote, August 14, 1966

Gene Roddenberry
If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I beginning to do 'Star Trek' that the subject of religion arose, again. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have to have a chaplain on board the Enterprise, I replied, 'No, we don't.
The Humanist, 1991

Steve Allen
"It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather scrupulous intellectual honesty." Reflections

An Eskimo asked the local missionary priest.
"If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No!" said the priest, "Not if you did not know." "Then why?" Asked the Eskimo earnestly, "Did you tell me?"

To find the directions, please click on Directions.

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Universal Church (ULC)

The Universal Life Church (or ULC) is a religious organization that offers anyone immediate ordination as a ULC minister for free. The organization states that anyone can become a minister immediately, without having to go through the ordination process required by other religious faiths.

Reverend Kirby J. Hensley founded the ULC in 1962. Disappointed with the Pentecostal church, Hensley divorced his wife in 1955 and decided to venture on his own to find his religion. After five years of studying various religions, according to his own statements, Hensley concluded that the proper religion may differ for each man, and everyone is entitled to choose his or her own religion. No one should be criticized or condemned for wanting to practice the belief of his or her choice.

In 1962, Hensley, with the help of his new wife, Lida, moved to Modesto, California and founded the first Universal Life Church. Hensley served as the minister of the congregation while Lida filled the role of Secretary. According to Hensley, the Modesto congregation grew rapidly over the years. The Church spread throughout the West Coast, and today claims to have congregations located all over the United States and parts of Canada. The organization also claims to have a membership of 20 million ULC ministers worldwide. Their website declares that anyone who wants can become 100% legally ordained in three minutes.

Actual ordination in the Universal Life Church is free, and what makes the ordination complete is its registry with the home church. Imitators have sprung up that charge a fee for ordination.

Dedicated ULC members state that they truly believe in freedom of religion. In other words, they want every member to be able to pursue their own spiritual beliefs without interference from the government, church agencies, or any other outside agency. Their one creed (or doctrine) is "Do only that which is right." Of course, every person has the responsibility (some might say the natural right) to peacefully determine what is right.

The ULC received much criticism citing that a church that accepts all religions holds no views of its own and is not a true church. Various religious groups have spoken out against its practice of immediate ordination without any requirements, suggesting that such an ordination is only worth the paper it is printed on.

In 2002 the Church sued the state of Utah regarding the legality of its Internet-based ordination process. The court ruled in favor of the Church, noting that there is essentially no difference between an Internet-based application and a mail-order or phone-based application.

Of more interest to the United States has been the issue of whether the Church had actually been founded as a way for Hensley to avoid paying taxes. In 1985, the ULC began a series of court battles against the IRS to prove its legitimacy as a church (thus qualifying for tax-exempt status). The courts ruled that the ULC does indeed qualify for tax-exempt status.

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Propaganda & Psychological Influencing Media Lending Library

Adolf Hitler: The speeches collection VHS
Animal Farm VHS
Atomic Propaganda Films VHS
Attack Controversial film about the battle of the bulge DVD
Beyond Treason DVD
Bush’s Brain VHS & DVD
Brainwashing VHS
Casualties of War DVD & VHS
Charles Manson Superstar Documentary DVD
Crucible, The VHS
Dark Prince: True Story of Dracula VHS
Devils by Ken Russell VHS
Eternal Jew, 1940 Nazi Propaganda film, VHS
Germany Awake, Nazi Propaganda Film, DVD
Hell on earth: The making of the devils VHS
Hooked: Illicit Drugs & How they got that way 2 Vol VHS
Japanese Relocation: VHS
Hypnotic Eye DVD
Green Beret VHS
Fog of War, The VHS
Hearts & Minds VHS
Hitler: A Film (Ein Film aus Deutschland)
- Part 1: The Grail
- Part 2: A German Dream
- Part 3: The End of a Winters Tale
- Part 4: We, the Children of Hell. The Full 8 hour film DVD
Joe: a film about an American right wing laborer VHS & DVD
Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo’s Film Classic DVD
Jud Suss 1940 Nazi Propaganda Film VHS
Manchurian Candidate DVD
Marjoe & Jim Jones VHS
McMartin, The case VHS
Mind control out of control: The CIA & Cathy O’Brien VHS
Myth of Male Power, The Cassette or CD
Nazi’s in America VHS
Occult History of the Third Reich: 4 Volumes VHS
Officially Correct Dictionary & Dating Guide Cassette
Prelude to War: Why we fight VHS
Rasputin: VHS
Reefer Madness DVD
Rock & Roll the early days VHS
Scorched Earth: Propaganda: Propaganda posters, and leaflets as well as interviews with propaganda & military experts DVD
Stalingrad: from the same production team that brought us Das Boot: DVD
Swing Kids VHS
Svengali: VHS
Triumph of the Will / with captions VHS
Veterans Against Iraq War C-Span Parts 1&2 VHS
Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Different Sons VHS
Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Winter Soldier VHS
Weapons of Mass Deception Documentary DVD
White Lies
Wilhelm Reich: Viva little man: Documentary VHS
Wm J Bryan: Hypnoanalytic interview of a murder suspect, and an accident victim VHS
World at War: A New Germany 1933-39 VHS

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