----- Original Message ----- From: "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:16 AM Subject: RE: Tragedy in Israel
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > Van: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Verzonden: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 01:46 > > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Onderwerp: Re: Tragedy in Israel > > > > > Minor quibble - despite the best efforts of the current US > > > > President, the United States is not a Christian country. > > > > > > That is not how it looks from outside the US. Let?s see. You let your > > > children pledge allegiance to the flag every school day. Quote from > > > that pledge: "one nation, under God". A quite large area of the US is > > > > "One nation under God" was added to the pledge in a stupid attempt to > > fight athiest commies. Was this in the 50s? Anyone? > > Well, now that the threat of atheist commies is gone (assuming that threat > was ever real), would it not be about time to remove that phrase from the > pledge? > There is indeed movement in that direction. But the "pledge" is very unofficial, so its up to locals to change it as they see fit xponent rob
