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From: gamiddleton@watmath.UUCP (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: our religious heritage (a belated reply to Clayton)
Message-ID: <3281@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 03:07:44 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 21 03:07:44 1986
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In article <2962@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Whatever I'm calling myself this week) writes:
> ...
> (Amazing.  When talking about "true Christians", many Christians will admit
> that not that many people in this country who put down the "default" of
> Christian as their religion (e.g., on government forms) aren't really all
> that Christian. ...

What kind of forms?  I had thought that the United States "separation of
church and state" principle would preclude the government asking citizens
what their religion might be.

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 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo MFCF/ICR