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To: Brumar89 who wrote (16190)	9/10/2011 10:31:36 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 69300

There certainly is an atheistic battle being waged. I could list dozens of ways in which its being fought. The banning of clergy from the official 911 ceremony is an example. The illegal attempt to prevent prayers in the name of Jesus at the Houston National Cemetary is another. Well , you just might be witnessing a Revolution in Religion in Society, but that's nothing new ...you are aware ?? It goes back to the founding of this nation and the great US Revolution from England , Deists like Thomas Paine who was a great inspiration for that revolt and his writing Common Sense - was one of the great inspirations but later upon his death no Church would allow his burial on their "sacred" ground for his critque of the inconsistencies found in the Bible in his - Age of Reason - ( he wrote while condemned to die, sickened in a French prison during their revolution . ) Paine is often credited with writing "African Slavery in America", the first article proposing the emancipation of African slaves and the abolition of slavery . Perhaps if you feel so threatened you might take comfort in his opening paragraphs in the The Crisis which George Washington used to read aloud to his troops to rally their spirits .... These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.