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| buckeye... |
 Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:56 am |
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In another discussion forum the following was posted:
Dear Pete,
Perhaps we should rethink our position. On this list most people
including me are for separation of church and state. My wife has
lived in Norway and Denmark which have state churches. Clergymen are
official functionaries who register births and perform rites of
passage for the great majority of the population who are
communicants. Other than that most people rarely step inside a
church, and most Danes and Norse are skeptical about religious
matters. Sunday mornings finds a clergyman preaching in a big
building to two or three people. Some very religious people
dissatisfied with the tepid attitude of the state church form their
own fundy groups, but most people subscribe to the established church
which interferes with neither their politics nor their religion.
Although the UK is a much, more diverse society the established
church inspires very little religious feeling. When Tony Blair wanted
to get religion he converted to Catholicism.
Perhaps the dose of religion that the English, Danes and Norse get
from their state church is like the vaccination against smallpox. It
makes them immune for the most part to the radical fervor of
fundamentalism. Perhaps the US needs a state church to promote
immunity to religion.
David Fisher
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS ˇ Historical Reality SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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