On 2021-02-27 11:14 a.m., Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 2/27/2021 8:07 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

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>> There is a popular mythology that the US was founded by people looking
>> for religious freedom. The poor old Puritans just wanted to live their
>> religion. That is a bit of a crock. The Puritans were rather radical
>> Protestants who were extremely anti Catholic, and they wanted to set up
>> a religious colony where everyone was expected to live and worship by
>> their rules.
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>> Contemporary Christians whine about not having their religion pushed in
>> schools, not having the Lord's Prayer in the morning,Â* not having
>> prayers at the beginning of meetings, games etc.Â* That is not practicing
>> their religion. It is an attempt to indoctrinate people with their
>> religious mumbo jumbo
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> There are some that do that, but that is hardly the majority.Â* Most want
> to live their lives according to their beliefs, helping others as they
> do so, and be allowed to do so as they have in the past.




Oh yeah. We see that all the time. We see "christians" rallying against
abortion because they believe that all life is sacred. The same people
generally support capital punishment, eye for and eye, tooth for a tooth
and all that.

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