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Bernie Sanders

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Bernin4U

(812 posts)
4. The real significance of it that I see
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 10:03 AM
Jun 2016

Isn't so much the "I'm with the socialist Jewish carpenter" thing, as much as the fact that it shows we've finally moved beyond the, "We're a Cristian nation" thing.

This is the real progress, that it just doesn't matter.

So many of our forefathers weren't practicing Christians, and instead recognized the strength in diversity and inclusiveness. (Of course the still had the slave issue to reconcile.) But this business of "gotta be a church-going Chritian" seems to be a more modern construct, and it's great to see us get past that.

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