When I was a tyke, many years ago. (I'm not 40 yet) We stood up every morning, put our right hands over our hearts, and recited the pledge:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United states of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all."
Just 31 little words. But a very big commitment to the nation. The forefathers of our country did not mean for us to be divided for stupid, paltry crap such as this.
When the colonists left GB, a lot of the reason was that the Government was trying to make the nation one religion. As an aside, the King of the day, because of that religion, beheaded his wife, in order to avoid a non-sanctioned divorce. (The priest did say "until death do you part")
That is the whole reason for the separation of church and state. To keep the government from controlling religion.
It was not, as is being taught today, to remove God from public mention at every turn.
The early Romans were a one religion nation. No morality was taught. Everyone was out to have a good time. The worship of Christ offended them and they did their best to slay all Christians. Rome fell, crushed from within and without.
Today, the "religious right" is ridiculed. They want prayer in the schools, they want to teach children the difference between good and evil, between right and wrong. They want, ratings on games and music so parents know what the kids are playing and listening to.
The prevailing winds are saying that we don't need to teach morality. Christians, of every denomination, are being dismissed as kooks, with no bearing on reality that want to take away our "freedom" by forcing us to pray and mention God in public.
What a load of crap!!
Can you see the parallels? Is America the next nation to be destroyed from within because it has no values? It is, after all, "unconstitutional" to mention God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
When I was a kid, you didn't drop to the floor if a car backfired. Today, in some places, if you don't hit the floor, you risk taking a bullet from a drive-by shooting.
IMHO it is due to the fact that we took prayer out of the schools, made it unlawful to teach "bible based" morality, and it's illegal to use corporal punishment.
That same bible says "Train up a child in the way he should go, When he is old he will not depart from it"
Teaching a child is telling him/her. Training, involves having unpleasant consequences for going astray of the teaching. We are no longer training our children, and the country is being torn apart from within, and disrespected from without.
Those who do not remember and acknowledge the mistakes made in the past, are doomed to repeat them.
Here endeth the rant.
J/K
