Pledge of Allegiance

So it's finally come to this. First of all, these fools totally misunderstand the principle :separation of church & state." It does not mean that the state shall have no basis in the church. It simply means that the church will not be based on the state. It also means that there will be no national church, or religion. We live in a nation (one of the original to be so) where it is perffectly legal to be Hindi, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Aetheist, Agnostic, or Hippy. It so happens that upwards of 90% of Americans are Christians, and this is a democracy not an overinflated band of gypsies, and majority is supposed to rule. This makes it obvious why 100% of our presidents have been Christians. This is unimportant, really, as there are aetheists and Muslims who are at the least equally as qualified to be president as the most-qualified Chirstian, it is not a position where personal faith is mandatory in any way. But our nation, as I understand it anyway, is based on the principals of most religions, most principally Christian, and not on some existential philosophy or autocratic ideology (i.e. Nazis, CCCP, Taliban, Roman Empire, and Britain). This basis in the Truth over Fact is what made this country both great and vital and now we shun the very marrow of our nation's last vestiges of honor?! As long as public schools do not require students to ascribe to the tenets of the most present religion, we are not in violation of the Church/State law. The lawless hearts are free to be lawless (until they are caught) and the Godless hearts are free to be Godless, but they should not be given special consideration. Aetheism is as much a church as any major religion, no? Therefore, disallowing the majority's rule by forcing their beliefs into the rest of the people's world is by their very deifintion a violation of the Church/State law. Which they have wrong anyway. The founding fathers (who they're now unfortunately calling founding brothers) meant our nation to be a God fearing nation, for the most part. Only God-Fearing Nations ever last beyond the first adult crisis (which for us was probably the Civil War), and as we allow the Godless to impose their principles on our very lives, we are beginning to lose that which made us survive to this point: Freedom. How about instead of stripping ourselves of what is the fabric of our national dignity, we start teaching the truth about teh Civil War for instance, how it was less about slavery than it was about England; or maybe we stop allowing the courts to be abused and dodged by the silver-tongued; or possibly maybe at last we can stop pretending that our representatives actually represent us, and that our lawyers are judges actually uphold the law the way it was written to be upheld. We need more religion in our modern world, it is the last thing we will have to keep us alive. We should stop letting teenagers and their juvenile ideas about sex and drugs rule our culture before we stop admitting to ourselves that we are not the highest power in the world, and that we are not autonomous, and that we are responsible for our actions. "No man is an island unto himself."
Thursday, June 27, 2002
08:53 a.m.
by: adam douglas payne