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Flynn's, of course.

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I encourage the Satanic Temple. Nice people. Good tenets.

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I grew up as a Catholic (fortunately it didn't stick) in Baptist territory. I can attest to the evangelical distaste for Catholics. My two best friends in school were Southern Baptists, and I knew from various remarks by them and their family members that we wasn't quite right somehows. Dang. I can see lots of problems the Evangelicals are going to have trying to convert Mormons and Catholics. Hahahahahaha.

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I'm a retired Air Force Officer. Believe me - military brass are one trick ponies. Administering a democratic government is not their forte. (See: Iraq).Neither is compromise.

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No one who lies like he does is a man of any god except mammon.

https://www.esquire.com/new... and https://www.cnbc.com/2018/1...

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Flynn: "If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God."

So democracy, with just a hint of christofascist authoritarian rule over all who might resist.

They are saying it out loud because they think there are enough of them to make it happen.

Vote. You won't get another chance.

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In our Scranton Roman Catholic Diocese numerous ethnic based parishes were merged with others and their churches were closed. One of the Lithuanian parish churches is now occupied by an entire Episcopalian parish that converted to Catholic because of Episcopalians were getting too darn liberal (female priests, LGBT clergy). St John's parish is now Saint John Neumann Parish.

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I come from the nation that can supply you with as many as you want. We can chuck in some totally toxic plants and a bird that is able to kick you to death. Can we send you the starter pack?

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I heard they began the conference with a prayer,

"There is no God but God, and Donald Trump is his profit."

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I've always thought praying mantises would be terrifying if they were bigger than humans, especially since praying mantises eat anything smaller than themselves.

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The case he makes is basically the one since I've been making since the 1950's - mixing church and state isn't just bad for the state, it's even worse for the church.

I heard a succinct quote recently - "religion is good for good people and bad for bad people."

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THANK YOU! I thought the last separation-of-church-and-state argument died back around 1981. I'd given up on it.

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I plague a Learjet Tudor flack of the untitled snakes of Sumeria, and Tudor repugnance for witches stands, tarnation, underdog, in a dirigible with libertine injustice for all.

Yer welcome.

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The two best Christians I have ever known were Jewish and Buddhist, respectively.

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And Jean Calvin.

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