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pan6467 · 06-15-2004, 06:51 PM

Nano, I would be more apt to say okay with the pledge if that were just it. But it is not, a VERY SMALL minority in this country want GOD excluded from everything in the government and in communities.

I am sorry but I am tired of making concessions to appease a vocal minority over anything anymore. There are many things I am vocal about but I don't demand that government infringe on others rights, to appease me.

Again, history aside, if you have no value on the word it means nothing. The ONLY reason it can upset anyone is because they have put a negative value on the word and therefore feel they must change everyone's view.

When are people going to realize that the more you turn to government to solve problems of minute trivial substance like this, you are in fact asking government to take more rights away? IT is nothing more than a freaking word with only the value YOU put on it.

If you choose to believe it is solely the government's way to make everyone worship the Judeo-Christian God then so be it. Don't say the word in the pledge, don't say the pledge, I don't give a damn that is your right.

BUT DO NOT CONTINUE TO PLAY THESE POWER GAMES BECAUSE YOU OBJECT TO THE VALUE OTHERS PUT ON A WORD. iT'S BULLSHIT AND IN THE END TAKING RIGHTS AWAY FROM ME AND MY FUTURE GENERATIONS AND I AM TIRED OF LOSING RIGHTS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE PLAYING GAMES OF POWER AND SO DENSE THEY REFUSE TO LISTEN TO THE OTHER SIDE BECAUSE THEY WANT IT THEIR WAY OR NO ONE CAN PLAY.

Sorry but come on there are people starving, jobs being lost, a massive deficit, partisan politics that have gotten so bad nothing is being done, an education and infrastructure falling apart, an illegal war that is sucking the money dry, AND PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT THE VALUE PLACED ON ONE WORD THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE TO SAY?????

we don't have to worry about terrorists or other countries, we are very effectively destroying ourselves from within, because everybody wants everything their way. GROW THE FUCK UP AND MOVE ON.

06-15-2004, 06:51 PM	#36 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	Nano, I would be more apt to say okay with the pledge if that were just it. But it is not, a VERY SMALL minority in this country want GOD excluded from everything in the government and in communities. I am sorry but I am tired of making concessions to appease a vocal minority over anything anymore. There are many things I am vocal about but I don't demand that government infringe on others rights, to appease me. Again, history aside, if you have no value on the word it means nothing. The ONLY reason it can upset anyone is because they have put a negative value on the word and therefore feel they must change everyone's view. When are people going to realize that the more you turn to government to solve problems of minute trivial substance like this, you are in fact asking government to take more rights away? IT is nothing more than a freaking word with only the value YOU put on it. If you choose to believe it is solely the government's way to make everyone worship the Judeo-Christian God then so be it. Don't say the word in the pledge, don't say the pledge, I don't give a damn that is your right. BUT DO NOT CONTINUE TO PLAY THESE POWER GAMES BECAUSE YOU OBJECT TO THE VALUE OTHERS PUT ON A WORD. iT'S BULLSHIT AND IN THE END TAKING RIGHTS AWAY FROM ME AND MY FUTURE GENERATIONS AND I AM TIRED OF LOSING RIGHTS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE PLAYING GAMES OF POWER AND SO DENSE THEY REFUSE TO LISTEN TO THE OTHER SIDE BECAUSE THEY WANT IT THEIR WAY OR NO ONE CAN PLAY. Sorry but come on there are people starving, jobs being lost, a massive deficit, partisan politics that have gotten so bad nothing is being done, an education and infrastructure falling apart, an illegal war that is sucking the money dry, AND PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT THE VALUE PLACED ON ONE WORD THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE TO SAY????? we don't have to worry about terrorists or other countries, we are very effectively destroying ourselves from within, because everybody wants everything their way. GROW THE FUCK UP AND MOVE ON. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"