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TCCRA Racer Guy <TCCRARacerGuy@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I will say that 2000 years of history and belief is both hard and foolish to
> deny.  Further more, America, was founded on the Christian faith so "Under
> God" seems not only important to me, but to several other generations before
> me.  I think what they (Eisenhower alone?) added to the pledge in 1954 was
> just correcting a long over due oversight,

More like trying to re-write history...

> since the founding fathers of
> this great nation did make reference to a supreme (God) being in both the
> Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

The only reference to a supreme being in the Constitution is in
relation to religion, which in two places (in the main body and in the
first amendment) say should not be a requirement for public office nor
should the government get involved.  The Declaration of Independence
does talk about a "creator", but given the author's own religious views
you can pretty safely assume he wasn't talking about the Christian
god.

> Am I not now forced to accept some poor unfortunate ignorant fools belief in
> no God at all since he convinced a court to declared it unconstitutional?

No, that's not being said at all.  They're not changing it to "one
nation under no god", but rather taking out the religious reference,
which has no business being there in the first place.  Can a Hindu be
a patriotic American and pledge allegiance (they believe in more than
one god, after all)?  Can a Buddhist?  Can an atheist?  Surely you see
the obvious problem here.

> But does all this really matter?  Most definitely not.  What will matter is
> what you believe and where your faith is at the moment of your death.  If
> I'm wrong and they are right, no loss.  If I'm right and your wrong, your
> screwed..............

And if the Hindus are right then we're both screwed.

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