those of us who write longhand at first -- a big mess.efferson writes the sentence on the little lap desk on market street. he writes, we hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable. then he sends it to dub doors away to franklin and says, would you be so kind as to peru's the document -- peruse the document and in your great wisdom, edit it for me? franklin does those backslashes and he crosses out sacred and undeniable and changes it that we hold these choose to be self-evident -- truths to be self-evident. the point he makes is we are creating a nation in which the democracy comes from reason, not religion. we separating ourselves from religion. we are all very religious, but the fact that we have our rights comes from our creator but also from reason. he is trying to create an enlightened nation that believes in religious tolerance. if you look at the struggle of the last century, it was against tyranny, communism, and fascism. the struggle of this century is against intolerance and mainly religious intolerance. that is what this ce