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angrychair

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18. The Little Rock Nine is not relevant

Reply to Permanut (Reply #17)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 06:24 PM

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To my point. There is significant evidence to show that he was a religious extremist, both in his words and changing our national motto, money and the pledge of Allegiance to favor Christianity over other religions or no religion at all.

Those things absolutely drove Christian nationalists perspective that America was "Christian" nation.

Sorry. He might have said and done things that were good but he poisoned this country against itself by favoring one religion over another.

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