At long last, the Supreme Court has found the courage to stand up to the religious bigotry that has been
forced down the collective throat of we, the People, since 1939, when the slogan "In God we trust" was added to the
face of our currency.
Less than a decade and a half later, in the glorious year of 1953, a Congress dominated by Christians and
Jews added the words, "under God" to the Pledge of wAllegiance. To hell with the hundreds of thousands of
Buddhists, Hindus, Moslems and folk of religions other than those of our elected representatives! To hell
with Article One of the Bill of Rights, too!
The hundreds of thousands of folk of non-Christian and non-Jewish faiths have swelled to tens of millions
of people who are required to fall in line with the anachronistic status quo of more than two generations ago, contrary to
their own beliefs and, more importantly, contrary to America's "Prime Directive," the First Amendment!
With millions of Moslems in this great land of ours, why not change the wording of the Pledge of
Allegiance to "under Allah?" Surely no one would find that offensive!
I'm sure that the many millions of American Buddhists would find it more pleasing to have the phrase
changed to, "under Buddha."
What about the millions of American Hindus, though? Wouldn't it be best for them if the Pledge were
changed to say, "under Krishna, Rama, Vishnu, Kali et al?" Sure it would be!
Let's not forget the Rastafarians, either. We all know that they would be quite pleased if the Pledge were changed to say, "... one nation under Jah."
The only problem with changing the diety's name to Allah, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Set, Dionysis, Terra, Jah, Bel, Thot, Isis, Ishtar, Tlalok, Quixacoatl, Unawami or Bo-Bo is that Christians and Jews would be offended!
What the present day Congress of these United States fail to recognise in their bipartisan dissent
to the Supreme Court's couragious ruling is that "freedom of religion" means freedom from religion, too!
As seemingly complex as the problem of divine exclusiveness might seem to be, the solution is
astonishingly simple:
"We pledge allegiance to the flag of these United States of America, one nation, under We, the
People, blah biddy blah blah blah!"
NOTE: The copycat French gifted the young United States, after having followed our own successful revolution with one of their own, with a goddess-sized statue of the ONLY god(dess) universally recognized by the signers of the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution - the ancient Roman goddess LIBERTY.
Is it any coincidence that Edward Gibbon first published that most scholarly set of tomes which chronicle the acceptance of the christian cult by the Roman empire in 1776? No. Or that he had to disguise the nature of the work by titling it not after its primary theme, but after the ill effect of christianity's spread through the European continent? Again, no. Anyone so poorly educated as to have not already read Gibbon's work would be a better person for doing so, for it sheds light on what happens - and brilliantly documents what in fact did happen - to a society that sets about making the worship of olde gods illegal in favor of a more fashionable, new-fangled god. The four volume set that I refer to is, as if you haven't guessed, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
For thoses with open enough minds, please visit Faith of Our Fathers to see, in their own words, what America's revolutionary founders had to say about religion in general and christianity in particular!
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