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To: weikel
In my humble opinion, I think the Church of Scientology has a better chance of becoming a "state church" in Taxachusetts than the Catholic Church. It is true that most people identify with Catholicism there, but I doubt their leftism would allow them to let the Church run things. I'm with you, state religions are a really bad idea. Besides, Jews have been here in North America practically since European colonization, and many participated in our War for Independence on the side of the patriots. This country was established acknowledging that there is one God, so I think all Jews and Christians (and technically Muslims) are compatible with this. But we KNOW how you feel concerning Muslims... ;-)

As long as people don't try to subvert the ideas our nation was founded upon, I have no problem with them being here.

59 posted on 06/26/2002 10:28:34 PM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
In my humble opinion, I think the Church of Scientology has a better chance of becoming a "state church" in Taxachusetts than the Catholic Church.

I started thinking about the process of how a state would choose a representative church, I believe that it would probably be much like wireless telecommunication lottery. First a church would need to be licensed then it would be allowed to bid for the right to be named state church. Based on the above scenario, I would expect most of the I95 corridor states to be won by the Jehovah Whiteness’, all states west of the Mississippi would be Mormon. In no case would a state ever choose a group comprised of Christian fundamentalists as their representative due to their vertical demographics, lack of wealth and weak organizational skills.

63 posted on 06/27/2002 3:20:29 AM PDT by TightSqueeze
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