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keepingtrack said:
Mein Kampf was/is not a religious text. Big difference.

Another poster replied:
Mein Kampf was as much a "religious text" to the Nazi lunatic as the Koran is to the Islamist lunatic...

Isn't it nuts how folks will proclaim, "Well that is a religious book, but this book is a political book!?

"Religion," politics, philosophy - they can all be distilled down to a basic word: opinion. It is just someone's opinion about how the world or the universe works, their "worldview" if you will.

Thomas Jefferson, and our other founding fathers, realized this. One of Jefferson's most famous quotes, against forcing people to pay taxes to fund government schools: "It is both a tyranny and sin to compel a man to furnish contributions for the propogation of opinions with which he disagrees."

When you hear the Left clamoring for "separation of church and state," what they really mean is that they want opinions that they don't agree with to be banned from the public square. And the best way to ban those opinions is to refer to them as "religion." Let's not get sucked into that rhetoric.

[river rat]

I agree with Jefferson's opinion and your admonition.

Semper Fi

[sheik yerbouty]

Now we have "Mein Quran" and its ignoble verses..

[Killborn]

Agreed. If your freedom doesn't pose a threat to anyone, then go ahead.

[SkyPilot]

Very good points.