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Warpy

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3. A return to sectarian squabbling will be most welcome

Reply to WCGreen (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 14, 2012, 07:05 PM

Sep 2012

as the Reagan coalition continues to break down, each sect arguing for its own dogma to be written into civil law while opposing the dogma of rival sects, or even the wording from rival sects when they agree on the basic idea.

After all, what sparked the Nativist Riots in Philadelphia in the mid 1800s was a law telling all schools to post the Ten Commandments without specifying which bible they were to be taken from.

Religion was never meant to be a driving force in politics and this country has run into trouble every time it has been.

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"Values Vote Summit" = "Christian" fascists... [View all] Archae Sep 2012 OP

Same as it ever was. silverweb Sep 2012 #1

There is no "national" denomination. WCGreen Sep 2012 #2

A return to sectarian squabbling will be most welcome Warpy Sep 2012 #3

I want to see the battle between the pre-millennialists vs the dominionists longship Sep 2012 #4

Just check out this "Christian" Nazi... Archae Sep 2012 #5