"P Fritz" wrote in message
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:00:25 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:28:11 -0400, P Fritz wrote:


There were also offical STATE religions until the middle 1800's

Yeah but, in the continuing dichotomy of state and federal powers, that
was trumped by the Fourteenth Amendment. Besides, no one hear is
talking
about a state religion, they are talking about a federal religion, and
that has always been proscribed.

I want a state sponsored religion - let's call it the Church of
Lightning and Thunder.

The mythology will be "don't pay your taxes, zap/kaboom!!!

Yeah, that works. :)


I wonder if the liebrals hear the whooshing sound passing over their
heads.

When did school systems established by state guvmint become federalized?

The fact that official state religions existed for decades after the
founding of the federal guvmint, without objections from the writers of
the
constitution, is proof enough that there was no intent of a "wall of
separation" that the liebrals constanting demand.


I and most people are against state religions. The US constitution also
governs what states can do. But no where in the constitution is the phase
"separation of church and state". The founders did not want a government
sanctioned religion, ala Church Of England. But they also recognized most
people believed in a "God(s)". Different flavors of that "God(s)", so you
could believe in any version you desired. Even the "God of Atheism"