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“I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.”

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Michael Newdow, born on June 24, 1953, is an American attorney known for his work in the area of religious freedom and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. He gained prominence for leading a lawsuit challenging school prayer policies in public schools, which drew public attention to issues of religious freedom. more

“What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."”

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Author:Isaac Newton

“If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.”

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

“The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.”

“I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.”

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Author:Isaac Newton

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