From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017070423232140235-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > We had a good duo today.  Even did God Bless America.   
      
   The other keyboard player and myself did that one last Sunday at church   
   after our postlude.   
      
   > Interesting thing there, when we said we were gonna do that, some in the   
   > audience commented along the lines of " good ", and added that it was kind   
   > of brave in that singing that could get us sued.   
      
   As in doing that song which is about a country that no longer exists....it   
   sure wouldn't stop me, and I'm glad it didn't stop you either.   
      
   > We did it just the same. The ACLU will probably be calling me up anytime   
   > :-)   
      
   Then the very least they can do is  Remove the "American" part of their name   
   to at least be somewhat Honest!   
      
      
   > The athiests here really have the upper hand, or maybe I should say had,   
   > as there's been an election :-)   
      
   They don't have ANY kind of upper hand unless it's Stupidly Given to then -   
   I WON'T GIVE IT TO THEM!!!   
      
   > They are all about freedom of religion  . . meaning free not to express   
   > any religious beliefs in public.   
      
   But since I do my own Thinking (and  so should everyone else), I decide how   
   to enjoy that Freedom, NOT THEM!!!   
      
   > I don't care what they believe, or don't believe.  Doesn't really matter   
   > to me.   
      
   Same here, insomuch as what they believe has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with   
   how I Choose to live my own life!   
      
   > Oddly, they DO seem to care what I believe.   
      
   But of course only with ulterior motives.   
      
   > Religion is bad.   
      
   Most of it is, and I don't think much of it, but nonetheless, it's an   
   Individual Choice.   
      
   > It's the root cause of all the troubles in the world.   
      
   Particularly when it's Government Religion!!!   
      
   > Or so my athiest friend told me just this past weekend.  He's wrong, but   
   > he also a lib, so there's no point talking to him. His mind is   
   vcompletely made up, and nothing will change it.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   So was my mind - I was a practical atheist, better known as a deist, until   
   God changed it back in '74 - I think so very many forget the enormous   
   gravity of just what *Almighty* really means ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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