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Category: Reason
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Tolerance is frequently urged by many groups of well-meaning promoters of the concept of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc., in line with the guarantees of the Constitution. Tolerance, as Dictionary.com defines it, 1.A fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinion, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one’s own; freedom from…
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Some people can be so annoying. It is especially so when those people are pointing out contradictions and flaws in concepts you’ve held true since childhood. At first you try to hush them up by being boisterous, telling them they have no right to voice their opinion about the matter. Each time you try to…
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Our public schools are under attack from many directions. The reasons for these attacks are varied. Religious fundamentalists charge that the public schools are not teaching the proper morals and cause the young to disrespect and reject religious teachings. These parents, having themselves been indoctrinated in the faith from an early age, find it much…
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Amendment II, The Bill of Rights: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Does this amendment, the second amendment, part of the Bill or Rights, provide a legal basis for any group to develop and…
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So much press of late has been about Mid-Ohio Atheists billboards. People would almost have to be sitting at home dead not to have heard of them by now. All the outcry from the public that these billboards were in bad taste, and in bad taste because they were scheduled at the holiday season. I…
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