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To: GoLightly

You've admitted that you want to harness the power of government to express your preferred religious views. I think your fellow Americans are free to judge the merits of that statement at face value. It is very contrary to the ideals expressed by Madison and Jefferson, and the thinkers of the Enlightenment. In any case, thanks for exchanging ideas with me.


553 posted on 04/21/2005 9:34:00 PM PDT by risk
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To: risk
You've admitted that you want to harness the power of government to express your preferred religious views.

I have? I don't think I could convince 100 people to my particular religious views, much less enough to demand a government on any level do it for me.

You wanna buy one of my rocks & be the second member of my religion?

Madison & Jefferson scratched their heads over Massachusetts, but didn't presume to inflict their vision about religious beliefs on them. They knew that people there could always vote with their feet if they felt their individual rights were getting infringed on there.

554 posted on 04/21/2005 9:52:32 PM PDT by GoLightly
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