From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 11:50:08 MDT
At 02:39 PM 6/28/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
>To: <extropians@extropy.org>
>Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:11 PM
>Subject: Re: POLITICS: Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional!
>
> > Dream on. Ask those 14% how many times they've gasped "oh god" in
> > coitus. There are no atheists while they are holing foxes (or foxes
> > getting holed).
>
>Indeed. "Oh, nothing!" doesn't quite do it.
But "Oh! Big fucking BANG!" does it.
Seriously, to those theists and even deists (not many in the USA these
days) who think it's silly for non-believers to object to the relatively
recently added "under God", I would ask: Would you have had any problem if
the pledge said "one nation under no god" ? Somehow, I think they would.
Max
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