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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (190900)	6/18/2004 7:32:22 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573902

Ted, for most of this nation's history, the separation of church and state only meant that government can't force a citizen into any religion. That was significant during the days of the Church of England, where not belonging to the church meant treason. It meant a lot more than that. Americans saw how religion had intruded destructively into European gov'ts and were determined to keep it out of ours.........or are you unfamiliar with the Cardinal Richelieu of France. Papal chicanery is what caused England to form the Church of England. There is a lot more to separation of church and state than praying in schools or the lack thereof. Nowadays, that separation has expanded to the point where even a tiny cross on the L.A. County seal is considered a violation: foxnews.com pasadenastarnews.com. (a non-FOXNews link, just for you) This expansion only finds its precedent in modern history, i.e. post-WWII. That's right.......what else has happened since WW II? We no longer are we a nation of Christians exclusively. Only 90% in this country declare a religion and only 75% of the population is Christian. Furthermore, in the last ten years, the number of Christians grew by 5% while the number of non Christians increased by 110%. When the LA seal was made the percentage was closer to 100%. That is one of many good reasons to keep religion out of gov't.......I applaud them for taking the cross out of the seal. of those "Centuries" is a stretch. Oh, $h*t......multiple decades. ted