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I think the opposite - it's when things are in decline, when they're perceived as threatened or at risk, that government officials often get the most strident.

I thought about that. But if they know they are threatened, would they risk putting people off who would not then vote for them (like me)? One reason I left the Republican Party was that I was hearing more and more "god" rhetoric, and I couldn't support that (Barry Goldwater was my senator for a time, and what he said about "preachers" was dead-on). Normally politicians want to NOT alienate potential voters, and so try to avoid taking any solid positions. Granted, Xians are in less danger of that than the Satanists and their Baphomet monuments. But they are putting off roughly 30-35% of the population just based on all their religious intolerance talk.

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