[thechat] What?? WHAT?????
Lachlan Cannon
luminosity at members.evolt.org
Wed Jun 26 23:15:01 CDT 2002
Miriam Frost said:
>> schoolkids have been reciting the pledge
>> for all these years and suddenly it's an issue.
>
> It's always been there; this is the first time someone got far enough
> with a big enough stink. When I think of all the trouble I got into for
> being a refusenik in high school... And they'd come at me with "well,
> it's a 'generic' god - it can mean different things to different
> people." "So... being an athiest, would I then be pledging 'one
> nation under a load of crap that makes some people happy and kills
> others, indivisible...'" Oh, I was on detention for two weeks for
> that one.
Heh. Sounds like the kinda smart-arsed thing I'd come up with. Whether
that's praise or not is up to you to decide. :D
Lach
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