From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 14:35:26 MDT
> (Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>):
> Ah, being forced to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance... I still
> remember that. In the early days I was young enough to have no personal
> objection to the "God" part as yet. Still, it was clear enough that the
> Pledge contained a gaping logical flaw.
>
> "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. One
> nation under God, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all EXCEPT THE
> CHILDREN."
> -- Eli, 1st grade
Eli, some of us can actually remember standing in class for an
explicit Christian prayer at the start of the day--in my case that
was a Mississippi public elementary school in the 60s. We've made
/some/ progress at least. Next on the chopping block is the whole
idea of pledging one's allegiance to a damned piece of cloth in the
first place.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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