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To: Brumar89 who wrote (93334)	1/12/2005 1:13:10 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

No, I don't have things backward, Brumar. It is true that there were religious people who tried to argue charity towards the Indians, and supported freeing the slaves. But it was also religious people who supported slavery and owned slaves, and killed the Indians. Most people in early American history were religious. Personally, I think the Quakers (the Society of Friends) and some of the other pacifist religions did a lot of decent things in America. I would agree that many of our early leaders were not particularly religious. Of course I would also argue that the separation of church and state is very important, and that the boundaries are overly murky right now. Why are you bringing up things from 2000 posts ago? Has nothing interesting or noteworthy happened more recently?