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To: Torie

I wouldn't get sucked into debating what God thinks is abominable.

God isn't going to weigh in on this definitively, so we're all just guessing.

The real issue is whether the United States government is to be run according to the doctrine of any particular religious sect or another.

The Founders, who learned their history lessons from educated teachers, learned that the admixture of religion and politics doesn't really advance either one, and we wind up with the worst of both.


79 posted on 02/04/2007 1:25:42 PM PST by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: CobaltBlue

I set up a hypothetical within the poster's belief matrix. It was not about what the nexus should be between government and God and/or religion, or what the Founders thought it should be, or what the Constitution says it is.


81 posted on 02/04/2007 1:27:52 PM PST by Torie (The real facts can sometimes be inconvenient things)
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To: CobaltBlue
The Founders, who learned their history lessons from educated teachers, learned that the admixture of religion and politics doesn't really advance either one, and we wind up with the worst of both.
The Founding Fathers 'admixed' religion and politics often. Look up the Virginia Statute on Sodomy and note Thomas Jefferson's hand in the creation of same. Maybe you were unaware that almost half of the original 13 States had mandantory taxes collected to support organized religion.
113 posted on 02/04/2007 1:52:54 PM PST by narses ("Freedom is about authority." - Rudolph Giuliani)
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