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Article: Oh, God!(PARTING THOUGHTS)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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RELIGION SEEMS TO BE a hot topic today, as the Evangelicals take credit for electing George W. Bush. Then, too, the old saw about evolution and creationism keeps coming up, despite hard evidence of the former. Likewise, there is the never-ending controversy over public buildings displaying the creche or the Ten Commandments. At the heart of religion is the "God Question" that seldom is addressed directly. A British wit, upon hearing two people argue--one claiming there is a God; the other denying it--tried to compromise by saying that the truth lies somewhere in between. We speak of God as though everyone understands the same meaning behind the word, but this is patently ...
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