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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26771)	12/9/1998 7:36:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Bob, I'm not sure whether this is accident or evasion, but you appear to be responding to somebody else's post. The opinions I discussed were mine, not Jefferson's, and you don't seem to want to discuss them. Nonetheless: The government by placing any restriction on christianity at all has violated the true intentions of our founding fathers. Regardless of how many out of context quotes can be posted their true intentions were as I have stated here. Neither you nor I nor anyone else knows what their true intentions were. Since they aren't here to tell us, I think it would make sense to assume that they meant exactly what they said. The christian faith was not questioned in those times, it was assumed it was the one true religion. Is this a situation you think we should return to? I think it's good that we've made some progress toward respect and tolerance for other faiths since then. The government has imposed it's will over religion How so? Government is doing nothing to restrict Christians from practicing their faith. Government is not doing a great deal that it could do. Government has made no serious effort to tax churches, though it is certainly possible to argue that the accumulation of institutional wealth is in no way an essential function of religion. Certainly the exemption of religious professionals from paying personal income taxes is totally uncalled for. Christian TV networks broadcast openly partisan political content on a regular basis, in violation of their tax-free status, but government does little or nothing to restrain them. My beliefs on the issue of school prayer have now been posted to you twice without response; I don't think I'll bother doing it again. One point I will stress again is that Christianity forces Government to restrain it to some degree by requiring its members to prosletyze, a clear violation of the religious freedom of others. Your right to swing your beliefs around ends where my right to enjoy my beliefs in peace begins. What restriction has been placed on Christianity that has not been placed equally on all other religions? Steve

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