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<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">We think of freedom of religion as having to do with a bunch of white-headed saints praying in some stained-glass building, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someday something we hold sacred is protected by the first amendment freedom of religion. Like it or not, freedom of religion protects us all.</span></p>
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This may be profound or maybe just mindnumbingly obvious: what we really want is to be left alone, and that means with our thoughts, our beliefs, and most particularly, our superstitions and irrationalities</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
. We are run by our emotions more than anything else, despite our rational veneer, and those we do not, cannot change</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
without becoming someone else. How's that for an existential Tuesday?</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">We hold dear the right to be wrong and not have our government try to make us all the same, as in those countries who try to suppress dissent, the press, etc.</div>
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....</div> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">they are above the law, nothing bad happens to them. But something bad happens to us.</span></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
I suspect a lot which we may never know until books are written decades in the future about the CIA, NRA, IRS, etc. is going on behind the scenes, including some kicking ass of the "What were you thinking" variety. But publicly? Nothing. Buried deep, political. <br>
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