Ahem<\/a>.\u00a0 Of course it\u2019s been going on for some time. One of the characteristics of modern secularism that should give one pause is the tendency many have of denying what is plainly and visibly true.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a local news story.\u00a0 Go to some place like the Huffington Post and say there have been attempts to ban religion in our society, including keeping kids from bringing Bibles to school or studying their Bibles during school hours.\u00a0\u00a0 Not so! will say the good progressives and secularists.\u00a0 That\u2019s just right wing paranoia.\u00a0 Nobody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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