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On Sep 9, 11:55*am, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
Phil Again wrote:
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I, for one, am deeply concerned about a (any) President using the office
to impose, and thus enforce, by Presidential decree and administrative
action the beliefs and theology of a specific denomination. *The creation
of an ipso-facto state religion. *


There is not now, nor has there ever been any serious risk of that in
the US. *It is a red herring thrown out by the lifestyle liberals and
various anti-religionists. *If anything, American culture and government
today are *less* religious than at any time in our history.


To the contrary, a variant of Christianity was a de-facto State
religion for a very long time. Consider the Sunday blue laws
and the kidnapping of Hopi Indian children.

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