>>"If the President happens to be a Christian (as, oddly enough, all of them have been, so far)..."
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>>Tamar,
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>>Really?
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>>"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." - Thomas Jefferson
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>>"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated Christian dogma." - Abraham Lincoln
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>Technically, I suppose Jefferson was a deist; I don't know about Lincoln.
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>Nonetheless, it's interesting that in more than 200 years, we've had one Catholic, no Jews, no Moslems, no Buddhists, no Hindus, no ...
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>Tamar

True, but for most of that 200 years, with the exception of Jews, most of the population was Christian, Atheistic, or Agnostic. And, as late as the 1960's, I experienced anti Jewish discrimination. So, it may be interesting, but I don't think it's surpising.

Regards,
Jim