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From: [e-mail] (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <[e-mail]>)
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (pamela gurd) writes:
>This Canadian now living in the US feels that US natives are much
>less free in the matter of religion.  It is strongly encouraged in
>Texas society to go to a Christian church - and didn't a former
>president opine that atheists couldn't be true citizens?

I protest this calumny.  I grew up in Texas, and I was never pressured to
attend a Christian church.  I expect that the majority of Texas residents
seldom, if ever, set foot in a church.  What kind of pressure have you
received?

It's difficult for me to believe that attitudes toward religion in Canada
differ radically from those in the United States.
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