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      <title>Comments On: &lt;i&gt;NY Times&lt;/i&gt; Op-Ed: Faithful Tennessee Christian Calls Foul on State Legislature
    
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      <![CDATA["Teaching about religious doctrine is not the same as preaching just as teaching about space travel is not about training astronauts."<br>
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No but at least be honest that you are teaching religious doctrine. The fictions created in the State Legislature to get around the Establishment Clause are dishonest at best.
        
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      <![CDATA[CA, there is a hard core that does care what you think but they live mostly on the coasts. As for the Germans, somehow I just don't think of National Socialism catching on here in the old Confederacy.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Chris Allen]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Wow John, are you super serious that these politicians will "soldier on" and not care what people like me think? Man, I was beginning to think I could make a difference.
        
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      <![CDATA[Look, I was thinking of the transgenered, that sort of thing.
        
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      <![CDATA[Nah, Min, because there are plenty of Americans who are Canadians, Peruvians, what have you. The Americas are a couple of big continents.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Min]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Actually, the equivalent of female woman would not be native American or African American, john. It would be be U.S. American.
        
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      <![CDATA[Yes, a female woman; there was no reason not to think so. For the sake of clarity I wrote it.
        
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      <![CDATA[OMG, she's a female woman?
        
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      <![CDATA[The decline of religion in the Christian west has been pretty much uniform though Europe has been ahead of this country for the most part. The Republicans hope to profit by supporting the Baptists just as Democrats pander to blacks and unions.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[gast]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Teaching about religious doctrine is not the same as preaching just as teaching about space travel is not about training astronauts. I mention this because some of the rants and reasoning is getting pretty spacy.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[bluehawk]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["NeverFear," not everyone in Tennessee thinks the way that you do, bless your heart.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[bmaz]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Apparently the New York Times editors think their readers care more than a nickel about Tennessee. (Even they might not have known, as Neverfear suggests, that everybody in the state under 35 is now about to vote Democratic.)
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Chris Allen]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["I think Mrs. Greene is about age 35, and as expected, taken up the liberal and democratic cause."<br>
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So not being happy about the blatant mixing of Republican party policy and Christianist theology is being "taken up the liberal and democratic cause." Neverfear, do you ever stop and think about what you are writing before you post it?
        
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      <![CDATA[She did a nice job on this editorial, and she points out the very obvious fact that Christianity is not a monolithic faith. If it was, we wouldn't have Catholic, Prostestant and Orthodox churches.
        
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      <![CDATA[Good article and there are lots of Tennessean's who aren't christian -what about these people and their religion or non religion are they going to be forced into the Republican form of Christianity ? <br>
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I  will say we need to be a Wall between government, religion, education and people.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[NeverFear]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[How better to sell your book than a "friendly" op-ed in the NY Times to that<br>
audience   Having read "Bloodroot" I found it fairly well written and somewhat<br>
entertaining of an era and place of 70 yrs ago. I think Mrs. Greene is about<br>
age 35, and as expected,  taken up the liberal and democratic cause.
        
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