On 2021-02-27 10:56 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.
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> Oh yeah. We see that all the time. We see "christians"Â* 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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Of course their favourite hobby is to cherry-pick biblical texts.