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Originally Posted by Crapshoot
I disagree - if anything, American religious ferver is growing, similar to that in Africa/India/Latin America as opposed to a more secular Europe. I'd guarantee that the next GOP president after McCain for example, will be far more religously motivated than a Gerald Ford or a Nixon before him.
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Perhaps they've become emboldended by the liberals' attempts to squeeze them out of American life.
So much of our life involves the government in some way. "Seperation of church and state" has become "don't ask, don't tell". Or at the very least, that's a very strong perception.
My father's a Lutheran pastor (the least scary denomination possible), and he used to give a short, generic blessing at the high school graduation. One year they told him he couldn't do it anymore. No big deal, he'd rather be watching baseball anyway. But I can see how that stuff comes off to some people. They're not forcing anyone to believe anything. They're not punishing anyone who believes otherwise. You sit there, think about whatever, and then the blessing's over. Big deal. I personally don't care, but it's just out of control the lengths we go to to protect people from wayward religious ideas. It feels like something a government that wants to extinguish Christianity would do.