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To: Dayuhan who wrote (18133)	11/30/2003 4:11:01 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793685

, and candidates are punished for not waving their religious beliefs from a flagpole. Been there since the founding, Steven. Tom Paine was reviled and denounced from every pulpit in American for writing The Rights of Man. In 1900, TR referred to him as "That dirty little Atheist." One of our greatest Americans was Robert Green Ingersoll. He might have been President if he had kept his mouth shut about Religion. Abraham Lincoln never made a speech without referring to "God." But he also said, "I never tire of reading Thomas Paine."