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To: BykrBayb
Football is as much an established religion as wiccan is. But football isn’t built around the desecration of Christianity.

To an Orthodox Jew, Jesus Christ is as divine as a football is and Christianity is a heresy at best and blasphemy at worst.

To many Christians, the Book of Mormon is as divine as a football is and Mormonism is a heresy at best and blasphemy at worst.

Who decides which religions qualify for First Amendment protection in America?

You?

Mitt Romney?

An Orthodox Rabbi who may think that Christianity is "a desecration of Judaism"?

The Westboro Baptist Church?

The Founding Fathers drafted the First Amendment because people who think like you do and try to limit the religious rights of others had caused too many religious wars back in the Old World.

168 posted on 09/02/2007 9:36:36 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius

God, Satan, a football, Homer Simpson, and a tumbleweed are not all equal. A “religion” created for the purpose of mocking genuine religions is not a real religion.


169 posted on 09/02/2007 9:45:52 PM PDT by BykrBayb (In memory of my Friend T'wit. ~ Þ)
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To: Polybius
people who think like you do and try to limit the religious rights of others

What a bunch of poppy cock. Religious rights are limited to the practice of religion, not the hatred of Christianity. If somebody started a religion based on hatred of Polybius, would that be a real religion, worthy of placing a monument at Arlington?

171 posted on 09/02/2007 9:56:01 PM PDT by BykrBayb (In memory of my Friend T'wit. ~ Þ)
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