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Old 09-10-2012, 11:07 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT View Post
I beg to differ...I suggest you read the Declaration Of Independence. Several references to God and government.
The word God only appears once in the Declaration of Independence..

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

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