Pollywogs!

I am reproducing it here as the Williamsport Sun Gazette gutted it of facts and actual content, leaving only opinion behind:

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Re: Turning our backs by Mrs. Joan T. Harvard of Williamsport, as found here: http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/534117.html?nav=5008

It is easy to believe anything you wish to be so when you are ignorant of the relevant history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli – “As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Six_of_the_United_States_Constitution – “…no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_amendment – “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”

We have freedom OF and freedom FROM religion. In no way, shape or form was this country founded on any single religion. This is a simple historical fact.

One of the drives that lead to the creation of this country was to get away from mandated state religions that were the norm in Europe, and set up a new state where people were free to worship (or NOT) whatever they chose in any form they chose. The attempt was to create a more perfect union. Notice the complete lack of references to Christianity? That is no coincidence.

It’s one thing to believe in whatever you want to believe in, it is entirely something else to be ignorant to the history of your own country and proclaim “THIS IS THE WAY IT IS, ALWAYS HAS BEEN, AND ALWAYS WILL BE”.

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This is the Sun Gazette’s version: http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/534463.html?nav=5008

It is easy to believe anything you wish to be so when you are ignorant of the relevant history. We have freedom of and freedom from religion. In no way, shape or form was this country founded on any single religion. This is a simple historical fact.

One of the drives that lead to the creation of this country was to get away from mandated state religions that were the norm in Europe, and set up a new state where people were free to worship whatever they chose in any form they chose. The attempt was to create a more perfect union. Notice the complete lack of references to Christianity? That is no coincidence. It’s one thing to believe in whatever you want to believe in, it is entirely something else to be ignorant to the history of your own country and proclaim “This is the way it is, always has been and always will be.”

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Thanks, Sun Gazette, for sucking cocks so hard!  You removed my nod to Atheists for absolutely no reason!  You even removed the references from the virtual copy where there was no space or format limitation!  Fuck you too!