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- From: freier@mail.physics.utah.edu (rodney james freier)
- Subject: Re: Sexuality
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- Organization: University of Utah - Physics Department
- References: <1992Dec31.180122.10088@microsoft.com> <1hvjgsINNah5@hp-col.col.hp.com>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 01:42:38 GMT
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- In article <1hvjgsINNah5@hp-col.col.hp.com>, smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- |> fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands) writes:
- |> > First, the country was not founded on Christian values -- it was deliberately
- |> > set up as a secular society, in order to not have the religious wars
- |> > and persecutions common in Europe.
- |>
- |> Partially right; it was set up to not have a state church, but it
- |> was also largely based on what can be called 'Christian values'.
- |>
- |> Walter
- |>
- Careful. Better make that Deist values. Most of our founding
- fathers were not Christian.
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