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Re: church/state seperation



"Bob LeChevalier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "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

Bob still cannot refute the DOI.





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