Tag: Freedom of Religion
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Quotations from Speaker Mike
“I am a Christian” “I am a Christian, a husband, a father, a life-long conservative, constitutional law attorney and a small business owner in that order,” Louisiana state Representative Mike Johnson told the Louisiana Baptist Message in 2016, “and I think that order is important.” In 2016 when first elected to Congress Johnson, his wife Kelly, and…
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An Accounting for Religion
What is Religion? Religion is mostly prehistoric: “The bulk of the human religious experience pre-dates written history.” 30,000 years of pre-history versus 7,000 years written. Prehistoric religious beliefs are credited since 35,000 BC, when burials began to include decoration of the body and accompanying artifacts.[1] Britannica describes religion generally as organized beliefs that guide a relationship…
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Patriotic Ceremonies
Students pledging to the flag with the Bellamy salute, March 1941 Collected Quotes Exceptions to Majority Rule “No official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion . . . To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead…