Abstract:  At the time of Jefferson's original draft (1777) and legislation (passed January 16, 1786), the Anglican Church, one of several denominations of the default religion of the USA, was officially recognized as The State Religion of Virginia.  This draft and law disestablished that denomination as the official state religion. HISways USA, Inc. has modified Jefferson's original draft as a proposal for another draft and law specifically for the Disestablishment of The Secular ^1D Religion from both federal and state governments.  Jefferson did not anticipate the establishment of The Secular Religion because the debate was all about preventing the ascendancy of a particular Christian denomination that would control and rule over all of the other "religions" i.e. denominations. (See Footnotes  ^{1. +2  +3.}).  The Secular Religion takes the form of an established state religion because it not only controls and rules like one but it even proselytizes like one to deny and "prohibit the free exercise", specifically, all of the denominations of the USA's default religion.  This modified model is designed to pose an answer to the hypothetical question: "Would Jefferson have added similar comments like these if he knew that he had to also disestablish The Secular Religion for the sake of religious liberty?" (See Political Solution Ref. #-I.)

Section I.

1. Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds,
2. That Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his Supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint:
3. That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or (burdens). 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 was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason and truth alone: ^2.
4. That the impious presumption of judges, 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 endeavoring to impose them on others, has -hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time: has now, covertly established The Secular Religion through multiple, cumulative and interlocking decisions: [See a partial list]
5. That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money i.e. property taxes for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical:
6. That even the forcing him to support this or that public school's Secular teacher of his own (R)eligious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of. using. giving his portion of the public contributions for. to the particular set of religious pastor. whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness; and is withdrawing from that man's religious treasure 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 his own descendants: mankind:
7. That our civil rights have no dependence on our denominational religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry: but rather on unalienable rights. ^5D
8. 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:
9. That it tends also to corrupt the principles of that very 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:
10. That though indeed these are criminal who do not withstand such temptation, yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way:
11. That the religious, opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction:
12. That to allow, suffer the civil magistrate e.g. a Secularist Judge to intrude his powers into the field of denominational i.e. Christian religious 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 nihilistic^.2D opinions, i.e. The Doctrine of Denial, the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own:
13. That it is now time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against truth, reason and religious liberty, peace and good order:
14. 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 , denied, or disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

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Section II.

 WE, the People. General Assembly of Virginia, do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any Secular (R)eligious school, Worship, place, or Ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened. burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

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Section III.

 AND though we well know that this Assembly, elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights^4D  of mankind, and that if any court decisions shall establish a religion or if  any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such actions. act will be an infringement of natural right.; the authors of such shall be subject to immediate investigation by a Special Grand Jury of The People.  (98 words added. - ed.)

^1. This reference link is a color coded combination of Jefferson's draft for the "Virginia Bill for Religious Liberty" and law with applicable quotes [PDF] at www.jeffersonlegacy.org/education.pdf >  ; Or see a facsimile at: Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,  

^2. This Jefferson quote, made after passage of the Act, refers to the 3rd bullet of Section I. of this (his) document.  "The Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom ... met with opposition, but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed and a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal.  Where the preamble declares that coercion [of body and mind] is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the words 'Jesus Christ,' so that it should read, `a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion.'  The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to [protect] the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination."      -- Thomas Jefferson 1821  ;  [Note the last word of his quotation where he interchanged the meaning of the words "denomination" and "religion".]

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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson*  (*The famous quotation ... is from a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush of September 23, 1800. [ Jefferson Quotations ]  [source]

• Explain the clauses:  "FREEDOM OF RELIGION"' and "THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE"' or/and "NOR PROHIBIT THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF" and "CASES WHERE THE COURT HAS DEFINED RELIGION"'; but, denies the Courts' own secular humanist religion.  Then read how the Courts, via "THE LEMON TEST", covertly and religiously, promotes and elevates the government's anti God, secular humanist religion.
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• Contrast: Our new, improved and expanded: "QUADRUPLE, EQUAL AND PARALLEL TUNNEL Walls of Separation of Church and State."  This prose is a short commentary on the failure of the Supreme Court's Lemon Test.

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