Donovan, thanks for setting the record straight on the God issue. An objective viewpoint is always good.<br><br>GS<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Donovan Arnold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>All those religions worship the same, The God of Abraham. They just worship in a different manner, and have different beliefs and ideology about God. Humans are all different, so their take on life and their relationship to Him are going to be different as well, obviously.</div>
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<div>I don't think anyone said that God created the Universe and left it alone. Most religions do believe in some kind of divine intervention and the ability to inspire people to do his bidding. </div>
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<div>Many rights listed in the Constitution were derived from the the Rights of Royal Subjects as outlined originally in the <b>Magna Carta Libertatum for Barons and freemen</b> written in 1215 in England, not the United States. It has seen been altered several times. </div>
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<div>Your Friend,</div>
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<div>Donovan Arnold</div>
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<div><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 1/9/10, Ralph Nielsen <i><<a href="mailto:nielsen@uidaho.edu" target="_blank">nielsen@uidaho.edu</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
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To: "vision 2020" <<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">Vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 6:08 PM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Courier"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Doesn't Rammell believe in the Mormon God? So now we have four different Gods: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Mormon, all in the so-called <span>Abrahamic</span> tradition. And then there is the God of some of the Founding Fathers, the deistic God, who created the universe, wound it up, and left it to run by itself, just like a giant clock. So he was NOT involved in writing the Constitution, it was written by human beings, the Founding Fathers.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Courier"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Ralph </span></font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Courier"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Keely wrote:</span></font></div>
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