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I'm a Nature lover and a strong advocate for civil rights. My current top political issues focus on the U.S. Constitution, including supporting church-state separation, freedom of speech, and the natural right to self defense.

"The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State." --James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution, 1819.

Reflections (2) RSS

• The idea of a god

  Posted: 10 months, 2 weeks ago in response to Atheists Send a Message, on 800 British Buses

  Reading this article, it struck me that believers would be horrified by the ads, and yet those of us who are non-theistic put up with much worse every day. I stopped listening to a radio station when they started running ads called "not a sermon, just a thought" which feature mini-sermons based on fundamentalist Christian beliefs. The fundamentalist 3 crosses on hills along highways make me sad that people are so very gullible, and not ...

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• Country with freedom of/from religion

  Posted: 1 year, 3 months ago in response to Does the American Flag Belong in Church?

  (My first "reflection")

  If the members of a church desire an American flag in their church, I think it's a freedom of speech statement. I feel very strongly about separation of church and state--and freedom of speech, and I can see why some churches would desire to remind its parishioners that a key reason they are free to worship as they choose is because they are located in the USA.

  To me, it's ...

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