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maxsolomon

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Thu Jan-03-08 01:04 PM
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my wife made me watch 5 minutes of Bill O'Reilly last night.

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the blowhard was answering a question from some brainwashed child-of-a-republican on separation of church and state. essentially, how come if we're secular, we say "one nation under god"?

his answer was that it's ok because "god is a belief, not a religion". if, for instance, we said "one nation under allah", that would be endorsing a religion.

my question to you, R/T DUers, is this:

is Bill O'Reilly really unaware that "allah" means "god", and that the 2 words would be interchangeable in that phrase, or it it a deliberate, pandering lie? and if it is the latter, who benefits?

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