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| (...) Err, just to make myself clear - I don't mind teaching the bible, as long as it is taught as a foundation to our country (Israel) and not as a practice we should all believe in. I also believe that it should not be enforced after grade school (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The Plagues, I guess. I think that's a great way to teach religious things in school. If you want to believe that a higher power caused them, knowing how the power did it should only reinforce your belief in the power (by saying that not only (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) One that always does get me a bit of a laugh is that Massachusetts had the "blue laws" longer than the south. They didn't START to be dismantled totally until the 70s (in the late to mid 70s they broke down and allowed stores to open on Sunday (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) They finally figured out that "banned in Boston" made the book they were banning a bestseller. :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:58:58 GMT "Shiri Dori" <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Mormon bashing again': (...) exactly, I agree. I was never tought that "I should believe in the bible", not even by the part of my family that _is_ religious. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Hey, that's also what happened with Mark Twain's _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_, from what I heard on a PBS program... --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Here in Texas, we were finally able to buy hardware on Sundays starting in the mid-1980s. The only remnants of the blue laws that are left that I can think of are (1) no purchase of alcohol (in wet localities) on Sunday until noon and (2) car (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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