No response warranted. Have great day.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RBHouston@aol.com [SMTP:RBHouston@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:35 PM
> To: John.Deikis@med.va.gov
> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Be an American (No LBC)
>
> In a message dated 01/30/2002 8:28:21 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> John.Deikis@med.va.gov writes:
>
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>
>
> >>>Therefore, there should be no objection to the Pledge of
> Allegiance
>
> Quakers, who were instrumental in founding this nation,
>
>
>
> And ultimately led us to Richard Nixon....hmmmmm... Pledging allegiance
> to the flag is a way of pledging ourselves to our country. The flag is
> only a symbol of our country...big only there...
> If you don't want to do it...then don't, but don't deny me my right to
> think poorly of you or any other American citizen who does not.
>
> Yes, God comes first, according to some, before family, but that does not
> make allegiance to our country unimportant or unnecessary.
>
>
>
>
>
> >>"In God We Trust" is our national motto.
>
> I think you'll find that "E Pluribus Unum" is our official national
> motto
> and the other is a fairly recent addition that has to do with our
> printed
> currency and not our nation.
>
>
>
> well...it's on the coinage too, and the decision to do so was made by a
> representative government. How many liberals would get elected if they
> add to their platform, "lets get God off our money!" Also, it's been on
> the money since before I was born, and hardly anyone would count me as
> "recent"
>
>
>
>
> What about Benjamin Franklin (an atheist) and Jay Gould (a Jew)?
>
>
>
> What about them? Think they were offended by the Pledge of Allegiance?
> Of course I don't know who Jay Gould is..was....??
>
>
>
> That logic doesn't seem to make any sense at all! God IS a part of
> our
> culture. What does that have to do with coercing free people to
> accept,
> acknowledge, promote, believe...whatever.
>
>
>
> Everything actually... If indeed God is part of our culture, and it
> appears you agree to that, promoting Him to others is part of the game.
>
>
>
> '57 Chevrolets, the Superbowl,
> and racial lynchings are also part of our culture.
>
>
>
> So using your logic, you are comparing God to a '57 Chevy, a football
> game, and a murder?
> Lot's of undesirable things are part of our culture. Because they are bad
> does not make other good things undesirable.
>
> Don't use the "logic" argument if you are not prepared to be logical.
>
>
>
>
>
> Let's bag it and go back to LBC's!!
>
>
>
> I agree whole heartedly...and for LBC content, who can tell me a good
> place to mount a flag on my Midget?
>
>
>
> Robert Houston
>
> "There is nothing quite so thrilling as being shot at and missed" " Yes
> madam, I am drunk, but you are ugly. Tomorrow I shall be sober, but you
> will still be ugly"
> attributed to Winston Churchill
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