My facebook buddy's "Under God" video & my response

[K8-EEE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1HRpRE5kOk

I know....oh brother!

I have to say that my facebook friend, while a fundie and freep-ette type who seems to gets all her info thru RW propaganda, actually does LISTEN and engage in discourse about things.

She was really surprised when I told her about the true history of the Pledge, it's socialist and pro-Union author (union as in, not confederate, as it was published in 1892) and the Knights of Columbus's campaign to add "under God" almost 60 years after the initial publication.

I then asked her to consider why teabaggers holding "secede" signs would pledge to One Nation Indivisible, if they in fact believed it was and is divisible, and sentiment aside, do they really believe in the Pledge of Allegiance?

More info on the Pledge and its NOT right wing roots, here:

http://oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htm

[zbdent]

1. great point about the "secede" signs and the pledge!

bwahahaha!

[alfredo]

2. The inclusion wasn't out of religious beliefs, but as a wedge issue.

[K8-EEE]

3. Oh absolutely

You can't give them an inch because these little things like letting them put the "God" ref in there, not only does it change the orig meaning of it but then they use it as LOL "proof" that "we're a Christian nation!?

[alfredo]

5. It also makes it a public prayer and elevates the flag to a sacred item.

[Thickasabrick]

4. That was one scary video. I loved the comment "as long as you

believe our dogma and aren't gay"

[alfredo]

6. The Authoritarians

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/ Download the PDF

[K8-EEE]

7. wow thanks for the link!

I'm so getting that book!

[alfredo]

8. John Dean based his "Conservatives Without Conscience" on his writings.

[K8-EEE]

9. btw GOP: whaever happened to "United We Stand?"

Isn't secession the opposite of "United We Stand?"