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mjvpi

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2. The short answer is obviously no. Pretty basic to the reasons our country was founded.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Jul 28, 2025, 01:41 PM

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I do acknowledge that for people who diligently follow a spiritual path, it’s a huge part of how they view the world. On an individual level, no problem.

But churches tend to take the spiritual into dogma and start enforcing that dogma on others. Nothing god can come from that.

The separation of church and state is the one part of the Constitution that was divinely inspired.

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