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Re: Under God? (What an amusing debate)
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Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:57:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> I think the girl interveiwed at school by my local news radio station had it
> completly correct.
Do you really?
> She stated: "What does it matter if the word god is in the
> pledge [of allegiance]. God can be anything you want, you can call money god.
> Why do adults get so worked up over nothing."
I don't know what to make of such a statement. God can _not_ be "anything you
want." You can call a duck, a chicken -- but you're just wrong. I
occasionally wonder why teenage girls get so worked up over "nothing." But
that doesn't decrease the importance of the "nothing" to them.
It's funny...I'd have to say that fundamental freedoms are about as important
as they come.
Chris
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 | | Re: Under God? (What an amusing debate)
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| "Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message news:GyFDrF.G02@lugnet.com... (...) you (...) But (...) important (...) I also agree that these fundamental freedoms are important. If an individual doesn't belong to any of the belief (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Under God? (What an amusing debate)
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| (...) Yes (...) Why do you automatically assume god = God? (Or maybe I am taking your meaning wrong) Anything can be a god. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (c) 1963 1 -god- 1: a being or object believed to have more than natural (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I think the girl interveiwed at school by my local news radio station had it completly correct. She stated: "What does it matter if the word god is in the pledge [of allegiance]. God can be anything you want, you can call money god. Why do adults (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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