Re:Minority Religions - Translated Answer (Score 1)

I remember in the 80's how many times I heard the
word God in a state address by the executive
branch, the implication being a judeo-christian god was officially endorsed and decisions were being made based upon a specific faith.
(pretty scary when you think how important a
role end-of-days plays in that religion).

People who grew up in a rarefied wealthy conservative existence, like George W Bush, can think that the separation of church and state is an aberation. While a huge proportion of the American public is Christian, I think that they(hopefully) understand the need to keep religion from government decisions. Religion in government leads to crusades in the middle-east to free the holy land, a State Religion, and rounding up all those really nice Hindus and Muslims I used to work with for soylent green production.
Those are extreme possibilities, but the separation of church and state was/is a cool idea.

GWB is as out of touch as his father (remember the incident when he was startled by the barcode scanner when buying socks, the guy couldn't have been inside of a store for 10 years to have been amazed by that, remember what he ate for breakfast some chocolate coated cereal with candy bars crumbled over it, talk about a silver spoon youth).

Oh yeah another thing about the eighties that I remember is Edwin Meese attorney general (indicted alot of times) here is a quote from fortune I got today that sums up what to expect from a Bush Administration.

Attorney General Edwin Meese III explained why the Supreme Court's Miranda decision (holding that subjects have a right to remain silent and have a
lawyer present during questioning) is unnecessary: "You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person
is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."
-- U.S. News and World Report, 10/14/85

--The implication that you cannot be moral and virtuous without being religious and sectarian is
at a minimum, irritating.--