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Clarice O'C · 07-24-2002, 03:26 PM

Short little diddy published today in the Daily Pilot:
<a href="http://randomfilm.com/images/PilotLetter_7_24_02.jpg" target="_blank">http://randomfilm.com/images/PilotLetter_7_24_02.jpg</a>

Supports what Toto was saying:

Quote:

Originally posted by Toto:
<strong>

"Under God" was added because of a campaign led by the Catholic Kights of Columbus, but their motive was anti-communist rather than pro-Christian. It was the Eisenhower era, and Eisenhower said something like "everybody has to believe in something, I don't care what it is." So you could believe in any unprovable invisible force you liked, as long as you were not an atheistic communist. It's the equivalent of a "non-sectarian" prayer.

If it had been explicitly Christian, it would have referred to Jesus, or Lord Jesus, or No King but Jesus, as some of Bush and Ashcroft's current pronoucements read.</strong>

Clarice

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