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Originally posted by pan6467
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.
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Holy balls, have YOU hit the nail on the head. I'm raised Baptist, and although I've sort of shrugged off the strictness of what I was raised, I AM still Christian. This kind of silliness is just, well, silly. To make a big "to-do" over something this small, it's pathetic. Some people are to full of themselves to realize that the past 228 years of this country's history have been based off a start around God, His Bible, and Christ like living and thinking. I find it amusing that those that really want God taken out of our lives (and by that I mean those that initiate actions and lawsuits like this...and possibly those that are so adamantly in agreement that they'd fight to the death over it) are also the ones that probably need Him most.