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Message: <blockquote data-quote="newusername" data-source="post: 5469198" data-attributes="member: 562064">The founding fathers weren't Christian, and there was a great deal of "dramatic licensing on religion" then...perhaps more so than today.  The difference is that those in power where mostly people who were familiar with the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, and the liberal political revolution that came about primarily through France.  Now the people in control are largely dogmatic christians operating on misinformed indoctrinated belief systems.It's about who is in control, and not necessarily where society's values lie.  Here in Canada, for example, almost 60% of Canadians support marijuana being completely legalized, and yet our government is pushing for harsher penalties for small possession.</blockquote>

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