Re: church/state seperation

"dpr" <&^%@&^%.com> wrote:
>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
>dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to
>assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to
>which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect
>to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
>which impel them to the separation.
>
>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
>that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
>among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure
>these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
>powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of
>Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People
>to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
>foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
>them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence,
>indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed
>for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn,
>that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
>to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
>But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
>same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is
>their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide
>new Guards for their future security.

"Poor little dpr-shit, lost another one so now he repeats himself like
a broken record."

lojbab
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