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did when I was growing up there. Today it is necessary to have a Police Officer in the village of Larsen Bay, Alaska because of national violence and alcohol/drug crime.There was the Russian Orthodox religion, but Priests only made a short visit approximately every half-dozen 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 a few(prenominal) if any of the villagers understood Russian or the Slavonic language. A few years before I left the village the Baptists moved in to groom our heathen souls. The Baptist movement 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 time give their sermons in English or at least through an interpreter.I had a childhood that was without the pressures an d influence of organized religion. When I left the village and went out into the world, my curiosity was aroused to the different nonnatural god-beliefs of the world. I found that some people believed so strongly that they had the "only" one true religion that they would fight and die for that belief. Supernatural god-beliefs are fair that - beliefs, a figment of imagination and a superstition. People that are indoctrinated from birth into supernatural god-beliefs know that they are right and that the others have it all wrong. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Public initiate Pre-game PrayerHalt prayer before games pass judgment 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 Larse n Bay, Alaska where he spent the summer. Emotions were intense and out of control for Christians who suddenly found that they lost one of their means of imposing their prayers onto the public. After 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 very intense, and meant to terrorize and to intimidate.