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      Utah has been getting a ton of Californians moving in. Also, Mormons seem to believe the whole separation of church and school thing.

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    The point of the establishment clause is that it shouldn’t matter what the majority says about religion. It should mean exactly nothing. Tyranny of the majority shouldn’t be allowed to make non-Christians into second class citizens.

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      That’s the thing. It’s not enough that they’re free to follow their religion, they need to force everyone else to follow it too.

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    As culture wars continue to brew in schools across the United States, one unconventional group is pushing for more representation in the classroom: Satanists. This has particularly caused controversy in states like Tennessee, where an elementary school formed a program for children called the “After School Satan Club.”

    This program was created by an organization called the Satanic Temple, a relatively new religious movement that purports to teach “compassion and empathy toward all creatures.” However, the introduction of these clubs has unsurprisingly made parents upset, while supporters of the Satanic Temple say they are working to improve the lives of children.

    https://theweek.com/education/satanists-school-representation-after-school-satan-club

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      The Satanic Temple really is great. For those that haven’t heard of them, check it out. Donate. Join. They use religious laws for the promotion of logic, reason, and empathy.

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    A map about people who paid attention in history and government class vs those who didn’t.

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      Exactly. Grew up Christian and it convinced me to be agnostic. Even then, I still would never add religious beliefs to the teaching of children early in life, when they clearly lack intelligent decision making skills.

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        I think teaching about religion is fine and actually good for interacting with people outside your culture. Teaching of a specific religion is where you run into trouble.

        I had a unit early on in school and another one in my early teens where we basically learned about the origins of a bunch of different religions and cultures surrounding them. Learned a lot about people that otherwise would seem unapproachable to me.

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    I’m saving this for when the civil war is about to break out and I need a rough estimate of where the front lines will be.

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        The only states id maybe be interested in as a Canadian is California, New York and Washington (also Maine because why do they even extend so far into Québec?).

        For real though, with the Democrats response to Trump, I don’t really want them anywhere near Canadian politics. They’d make our Liberals look socialist

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        If it were all purely based on this map, all states in grey and brown could join canada and still be a country with a single (ok very long and hard to defend) border to the remaining US states.

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      Also factor
      Military, national & state guard, and LE bases project a zone of control
      100 miles from any border is a zone of control

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      You’d be surprised. The non-Christian/Non-Mormon population of those states is extremely convinced of the need for separation of church and state.

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    Why just Christian prayers? Why not prayer in general?

    Use a generic “what do you think about prayer in public schools?” survey, and then where states vote YES create campaigns to make satanic and Muslim prayer programs at schools in the states that were all for prayer lol