>>>We have somehow managed to change from the "freedom of religion and to worship as you choose" to no religion in public period. It's like going back in time...
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>>Tried that, but no go. The best time machine invented so far only counts it, doesn't push it. Sort of read only. Called a clock.
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>>Frankly, when priests stop badmouthing the non-believers and stop pretending they have some kind of monopoly on morality, then I'll apply the golden rule again (and I don't mean physically).
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>>p.s. they'll probably claim they invented the golden rule too
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>When the last time you had to listen to a priest? :o)

Grandmother took me to her church a couple of times when I was, dunno, six maybe. And this September I went to a wedding. But they sang (sort of) in their XIX century revision of the church-Slavic language, which sounds like a heavy mix of older Russian and older Serbian and... well, I could understand what they said if I paid it any attention.

Like I said some time ago in the Palin thread, once a year I google for "church unbeliever", and every time I find, on just first four pages, lots of exactly what I said above. And that's in sermons and other stuff published online.