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To: ServesURight
Perhaps if Muslim countries had a secular government and separation of church and state as WE do...this heinous event would not have happened. Religion in the hands of government is a recipe for tyranny.
8 posted on 09/15/2001 10:37:07 AM PDT by jess35
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To: jess35
There is no such thing as the "separation of church and state." Who even invented that phrase? This issue is addressed in Amendment I of the Constitution as follows:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech..."

If one reads those words carefully, one would have to be a leftist, communist, member of the elite media, or ignorant (excuse all the redundancies), to fabricate the concept of the "separation of church and state" from those words. It simply says that the goverment cannot, by law, establish a religion, nor can it prohibit the expression or excercise of a religion by any individual(s).

69 posted on 09/15/2001 11:06:22 AM PDT by Paranoid-Pessimist
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To: jess35
if Muslim countries had a secular government and separation of church and state as WE do.. Or one like that of Robe spierre or Lenin?
205 posted on 09/15/2001 1:45:11 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: jess35
"Perhaps if Muslim countries had a secular government and separation of church and state as WE do...this heinous event would not have happened. Religion in the hands of government is a recipe for tyranny."

Especially if that religion happens to be Islam.
218 posted on 09/15/2001 2:22:55 PM PDT by Michael2001
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