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To: Sully- who wrote (91026)	12/17/2004 12:30:17 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

The people who write things like this are the ones who have probably never been in a church or synagogue in their lives, may have had a terrible early life, and all sorts of other variables..... I feel that many of us have been too silent for way too long. Today, a few friends and I stopped by City Hall after a lovely luncheon, and told them to ignore the idiot man who didn't want them to have a Christmas tree there in City Hall. We said PHOOEY on him, and there are more of us than him. Two of us took the Gift Request tags from the tree and will buy a gift for the child on the tag. I had done it already on another tree. We MUST start speaking out against all the ragtag messes who get all the publicity. Chatting on left-of-center blogs, this faction is quite open about their views on religion: <<< “I strongly feel that religion is primarily and perhaps only a force for repression in society. Organization religion in this country tends overwhelmingly to stand on the side of backsliding, of superstition, and outright bigotry.” “Religious adherents [sic], you need to get a clue. There are plenty of secular humanists out there who reliably pull the lever in the voting booth for the straight D ticket. When you force your man-in-the-sky beliefs down our throats, you make us throw up.” “Because, of course, all people who believe in religion are at one of the childhood levels of moral development.”