EAST DUMMERSTON — This letter makes me think of email chain letters, where if I don't say “amen” to something someone sends me, as one example, then bad things will happen.
I never do them. Not because I don't believe in saying “amen,” but I am just more private about it.
So, just because a merchant doesn't post a sign in the window, it doesn't mean they aren't of the same mind.
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A bill is introduced in a state to tax citizens to support the teaching of the Christian religion. Opponents circulate a petition opposing the measure. The petition's author says that no politician is a competent judge of religious truth, that every citizen has the right to religious freedom according to the dictates of their conscience and that the Legislature has no authority at all over religion. He states that Christianity does not require support from the government and that history...
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