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"The day that this country
ceases to be free for irreligion,
it will cease to be free
for religion."

by:	Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U. S. Supreme Court Justice
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Categories:	Constitution, Freedom, Government, Law, Morals, Religion, Liberty, Agnostic
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True. What is either but what a man believes in or free thought? Where the problem lies is the many must be moral or ethical regardless of belief. Today too many are neither. -- Anon
We're arriving. The religion issue is just but one of the markers attesting to waning freedoms. -- Mike, Norwalk
I think we Christians tend to miss that important lesson. Christ didn't teach that we should use the force of earthly government to beat the sin out of non-believers. Much of the animosity directed at Christianity today isn't because we act toward them like Christians - with love, compassion and forgiveness, but because we don't. When we abdicate our positive responsibilities to the poor, elderly, infirmed and imprisoned and instead, focus on ways to force a corrupted world to "act" righteously, we do much more harm than good. Sometimes I believe that next to Satan himself, we Christians are Christianity's worst enemies. Like Paul, I am the chief of all sinners. We have enough of our own sins to work on, to worry about those of others. -- Bryan Morton, Stuart, Florida
I think it was Dickens who said that missionaries always leave a country worse than they found it. Probably a slight over statement. -- jim k, austin
-- Anonymous, Reston, VA US
-- Dick, Fort Worth
Well said Jim!! -- RKA, Wasilla, AK
I don't know what Mike is smoking again because many commentators world wide see America as one of the most religous countries in the world. -- Waffler, Smith, Arkansas
-- E Archer, NYC
Though I am an atheist I would fight for your freedom to practice your religion -- RBESRQ

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