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I see your confused.

We say "Under God" today, in 2002
maybe you'll catch up with the rest of us someday, or live to Cali.........


"Monte" <montep@email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Far too graphically the public out-crying about the court 'Pledge of
> Allegiance' ruling examples our embarrassing lack of historical
> knowledge.  The 'under God' clause was added around 1954, during the
> great 'McCarthy' era, when everyne suspected an atheistic communist
> was under their bed, and were praying that one of J. Edgar Swoops
> finest Federal Bird Inspectors would barge into their bedroom
> unannounced in the middle of the night and capture the evil creature.
>
> Not one single citizen or soldier ever uttered the pledge prior to
> that time with the phrase '...under God' included.  Are we to then
> conclude that all those soldiers who fought Hitler and Tojo were less
> patriotic?  Less American? That all those American men and women who
> died in WWII were condemned to a godless hell bereft of the company of
> religious zealots, and paranoid ridden citizens who go to bed each
> night in camoflage pajamas?
>
> The only supplication to a god that I see any need for at all is the
> plea that I somehow survive this particular era of 'Religious
> Insanity'.
>
> Monte
> "Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books,
>  and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." ---Gore
Vidal