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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady
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Originally Posted by bradclark1
Presidential opinion went further back then Bush's presidency. No president acted on his opinion.
If people took Mr. Oren's piece to heart that would mean we are the crusaders that radicals paint us to be.
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The Crusades were not about proselytization. And while America has always been a Christian dominated nation, it's promotion of values are and were for the most part Universal and not theological in nature. At least this is what I understood from this book review and what I've always understood about American history. |
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that's pretty much my understanding, what I think has changed are the means of promoting those values.