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To: Valin

>> in violation of the constitutional separation of church and state.


Which Constitution are they talking about? I can't find the part about separation of church and state in the US Constitution, just a reference to no establishment of religion.


7 posted on 06/04/2005 2:39:33 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

Oh it's there. You just have to hold it just right so the the light casts a shadow, it's right there in the penumbra.


I just hope this doesn't hurt Nicholas Jurewicz's career. When you're a butterbar it doesn't take much.


10 posted on 06/04/2005 2:46:56 PM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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To: oblomov

I emailed Mr. Weller, the writer of this article, on this very same point. He said that the First Amendment is interpreted as establishing a separation of church and state.

I emailed him back and said that the proper wording should have been "in violation of what SOME PEOPLE INTERPRET as the constitutional separation of church and state."

I then thought some more, and sent him another email. In it, I asked how he would describe, hypothetically, an email that contained quotes from 1 Corinthians 15. Would he say that the quotes made reference to "the resurrection of Jesus Christ," or to "what Christians believe was the resurrection of Christ"? I then told him that I believe more in the historicity of the resurrection than I do in the constitutionality of "separation of church and state."

I have yet to hear from him...


46 posted on 06/04/2005 6:15:33 PM PDT by rudy45
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