Originally Posted by JB3

its always surprising when you come across people who believe things completely different from what you do. We all have a tendency to vilify people we don't understand, or have opinions where we cannot follow their logic.
You seem to see any discussion of the concept of god or jesus in the abstract as people trying to show how smart they are and so on.




we do not have a true separation, though certainly better than many countries. Adding "under god" to the pledge or allegiance is a perfect example of religious special interests being rewarded despite separation of church and state.

You got to be kidding me on this one too. If the author of the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem used the words God, et cet., in that person's work, and the US at that time adopted those works, are you suggesting we are now supposed to either get a new pledge or new anthem or modify what we got? How silly is that. And, how is this forcing one's religion on another person? Should we now say because a small, special interest group does not believe God the following ... one nation not-under-God ... or, simply outlaw the pledge or anthem ?



as a religious man, how are you in a position to state what an athiest believes and does not believe, or why?


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