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From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
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Subject: Re: Re: Swearing in Court - Separation of Church/State
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 10:05:18 EDT
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> If it is because fuzzy thinking results in the equation
> 
>     god = church
> 
> then maybe you ought to look up some definitions in your Funk & Wagnall's.

well actually "in god" implies a monotheistic view of reality, and those of us
who either are atheistic, or pantheistic, feel that the institutionalisation
of a monotheistic (and actually it is a specifically christian) viewpoint
by the state violates the intention of the first amendment.
-- 
						Mark Roddy
						Net working,
						Just reading the news.

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