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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:14:13 GMT
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Mark Ryan Miller (zitsky+@CS.CMU.EDU) wrote:
: |> : I see the U.S. vice president saying "No I don't know that atheists
: |> : should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered
: |> : patriots. This is one nation under God." This during his campaign,
: |> : and he is later elected president.
: |>
: |> A comment almost no one here ever heard of. He is also about to become
: |> a former President.
: |> :
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: I just had to say that I disagree with virtually everything in the above
: response. As for the last quote, it was from President George Herbert Walker Bush, and the conversation was with a reporter from an Atheist organization.
: It is well documented. I can provide info, or you can look through some of the last few weeks messages on the atheist newsgroup.
I'm not questioning the quote. Bush is a big enough twit to say something
like that. I'm just not sure that it tells you anything about this country.
He wasn't elected because of that quote. I'm a political junkie and I never