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To: Melas
Maybe I shouldn't, but I have these paranoid fears that vindictive theists want to burn me and those who believe like me at the stake, even if metaphorically.

That last clause is essential in underlining that I'm not really talking about being burned at the stake. Without it, I sound like a rambling nutbar who's afraid the good christians are going to come kill me, not merely marginalize or censure me.

If the community decides on a set of morals and you do not live up to those morals then you should be marginalized and/or censured. This is not the same as being burned at the stake by any stretch of the imagination.

The point that was made is that the local community should have control over the local community. There is no constitutional prohibition against a local community enforcing Christianity (or any other religion)

38 posted on 12/09/2004 7:32:08 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: John O
The point that was made is that the local community should have control over the local community. There is no constitutional prohibition against a local community enforcing Christianity (or any other religion)

That's perhaps the most unamerican idea I've ever read on Free Republic. Now it's ok to "enforce" religious observance. So much for the supposedly unalienable right of a man to hold his own conscience eh?

45 posted on 12/09/2004 10:11:10 AM PST by Melas
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