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To: skinowski who wrote (25403)	4/15/2002 6:54:53 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi skinowski; Re: "I have always felt that when Jews initiate things like demands to remove Christmas decorations from public places, they do a favor to no one. I would tell them, If you don’t like living in a Christian country, the door is open. Love it or leave it. No need to interfere with people’s free expression of their religious feelings. That’s my opinion, anyway." There's a lot of room on this question. Christmas has become a secular holiday widely celebrated even in "heathen" lands like Japan. So I don't see a problem with Santa Claus and Christmas trees. The trees, after all, are a pre-Christian tradition. Same applies to Halloween. But I don't think that that has much to do with whether or not the US is a "Christian country". I look in my passport. There is no indication of my religious affiliation. Same with my driver's license. My social security card has no mention of my religion. This country, founded as it was by peoples of disparate religious beliefs at a time when those religious beliefs frequently went at it tooth and nail, wisely disconnected the country from any particular religion. There is enough of a majority that believes in God to put it on our money. But that God can be, and is, interpreted differently depending on who you ask. The "In God We Trust" phrase (on all modern US coin and currency) dates to post civil war, and I think it should be removed from our money. When the US government, on earth, approaches the perfection of God, in heaven, I may change my mind on this. Until then, the phrase "Render unto Caesar that which is Casear's" makes complete sense to me only without His name on our filthy money. -- Carl