Faun_Otter

I have had some success educating political progressives and Liberals who are having trouble seeing how the present words of the pledge are a form of religious apartheid. I ask them how they would feel if the POA had such phrases as:

"one straight nation...."
"one white nation...."
or
"one male nation...."

Rather than the equally exclusionary and unconstitutional phrase "one nation under God." The rational few are starting to 'get it' and see how the (mistakenly) percieved smallness of our numbers does not make it alright to discriminate against us on religious grounds.

Faun

Buffman

Yes, and the predisposition towards belief in god(s) is apparently hard-wired into our brains. See: Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief.

Why is this predisposition missing from the "hard-wiring" of the non-believer's mind? I read the book reviews, not the book. Perhaps a subscription to the MIT press "Neuroscience" book review pamphlet would serve as a better source of knowledge.

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Ian

My local paper just came out in favor of the ruling. I will be writing a letter of support. I can't wait to see the local reaction to this one.

<a href="http://www.lsj.com/opinions/index.html" target="_blank">Lansing State Journal</a>