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The First Amendment bans hindering or advancing religion. Yet we taxpayers are burdened with paying chaplains who pray at the first chance they get. What are they praying for, when they involve military employees in religious rites? Do they pretend the dead "don't really die, but go to a Better World?" I'm sure the chaplain did not say, "This man killed these people because he converted to Islam. Religion is to blame for all these deaths." Were any of the soldiers atheists, who kept quiet because, like the shooter Muslim, they would suffer discrimination, this time for lack of faith? Preaching, as a paid profession, became obsolete in the former USSR and the PRC, but we are still stuck with it here. Tax-exempt churches increase taxes on the rest of us. Some day, religion will be seen to be not worthy of respect but in need of extinction.

ajura dawnveirs of CA 6:59PM November 12, 2009

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