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To: epicure who wrote (154186)	12/16/2004 1:07:53 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There are a lot of people who don't want the government unraveled from American tradition. * * *

To: epicure who wrote (154186)	12/16/2004 3:16:41 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ionesco, re: What you are really complaining about, is that you can't dominate the society as much as you want to. If that is an "assault" then it's a good one, imo. Thanks for your series of well expressed posts. Most of us agree wholeheartedly with the proposition that government should stay out of our religious lives. For the religious right, however, that proposition seems to be evolving into a belief that government has no right to block the religious folks working in government from using their employment to express their religious views. It's a not-so-subtle distinction that nevertheless seems to escape them. Whenever they are blocked in that endeavor they often simper that their religion is under assault by the courts or by anti-Christian secularists. They claim a failure to recognize the "Christian roots" of this nation. I suppose that's a clear expression of their belief that this is a "Christian Nation." What concerns me ever more greatly is the phenomenon of religion/patriotism/republicanism melding into some kind of ungodly holy trinity where the faithful cannot separate one from the other and politicians must act according to the wishes of the clerics in order to gain and hold office. (Who will be our Sistani?) That process is abetted by clerics who seem to be moving and further and further into the realm of power politics. I wonder if they've forgotten that involving government into religion or religion into government has historically led to unwanted restraints on the free exercise of religion, even the free exercise of those in the majority? As in all aspects of life, power breeds the abuse of power. I suspect it's just as true for those who profess to be priests, rabbis and ministers as it is for every other man or woman. Ed