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Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

1. Oy vey!

Reply to Brainstormy (Original post)

Fri Jun 3, 2016, 10:52 PM

Jun 2016

"One of the event’s top organizers, Iowa Prayer Caucus director Ginny Caligiuri, has dismissed the idea of a separate church and state as “a fallacy.” Those rules are in place, she told the Register, to protect churches from government overreach, not the other way around."

Like, what.... making them pay their fair share of taxes.....

Religious privilege again.

Go have a marathon Bible reading at Iowa churches. Isn't that what churches are for? Who needs it at courthouses?

Religon is ridiculous.

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