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To: general_re
I think Pat probably has a better understanding of the slippery slope of losing our freedom of religion than you do

1CO 2:10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. [11] For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. [12] We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. [13] This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.* [14] The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. [15] The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:

822 posted on 08/21/2003 6:50:11 PM PDT by apackof2
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To: apackof2
I think Pat probably has a better understanding of the slippery slope of losing our freedom of religion than you do

Right, right - either we let Roy Moore and Coral Ridge use the state of Alabama as their personal hobby-horse, or we're on the road to tossing them to the lions.

You don't have the freedom to use the state as a hammer to smack people with your beliefs. Neither do I. Deal with it. And if your faith is so weak that it can't survive without the patronage of the state, maybe it deserves to die anyway.

858 posted on 08/21/2003 8:28:46 PM PDT by general_re (A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.)
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