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did when I was growing up there. Today it is essential to have a Police Officer in the hamlet of Larsen Bay, Alaska because of home(prenominal) violence and alcohol/drug abuse.There was the Russian Jewish-Orthodox religion, still Priests only made a short visit approximately each six months to a year, that is if the weather and the Priests schedule permitted. Whenever a Russian Orthodox Priest would visit, he would give all of his sermons in either Russian, or Slavonic. Very few if any of the villagers understood Russian or the Slavonic language. A few years in the lead I leftover the village the Baptists moved in to cleanse our heathen souls. The Baptist presence in the village lasted for about 10 years after I left. There is a Russian Orthodox religious presence in the village today. The Russian Orthodox religion moved into the village, built a Church and this magazine give their sermons in English or at least with an interpreter.I had a childhood that was without the pres sures and influence of organized religion. When I left the village and went out into the world, my curiosity was aroused to the different supernatural god-beliefs of the world. I found that some people believed so strongly that they had the "only" integrity true religion that they would fight and die for that belief. Supernatural god-beliefs are honest that - beliefs, a figment of imagination and a superstition. People that are indoctrinated from alliance into supernatural god-beliefs know that they are right and that the others have it all wrong. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- habitual School Pre-game PrayerHalt prayer before games judge ordersThis was on the front page of the Atlanta Constitution on September 25, 1986. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order banning prayers before football games at the Douglas County High School in Douglasville, GA. Doug Jager just returned to Douglasville, GA from his first trip to Larsen Bay, Alaska where he spent the summer. Emotions were intense and out of watch for Christians who suddenly found that they lost one of their means of imposing their prayers onto the semipublic. later the Atlanta Constitutions front-page story to halt prayers at public school football games, Georgia went crazy. The Jager household was besieged with some of the nastiest phone calls and open public abuse coming from Christians in the name of God. The abuse coming from Christians was actually intense, and meant to terrorize and to intimidate.