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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Yankee
	Date:	8/24/2009 7:05:57 PM

Very nicely put. And I think agree with much of what you have said. Flyovers give me chill bumps. When I worked in the Pentagon and would go to the Hall of Heros and read the names, it would bring tears to my eyes. Remember during the first Gulf War, how there would be stories about individuals deploying and then coming home? Well, I spent that entire time in tears. And for about a week, they displayed the bronze statue comemorating the troops outside the cafeteria in the Pentagon, I cried again.

And I don't have any problem with displays of the flag on a porch or boat or any other place when it is done correctly. Where I start to have a problem is when people verbally wrap themselves in the flag as a means to justify their perspective. That to me is cheap sentiment. The "more patriotic than thou" routine.

And I agree that our nation is still primarily a Christian nation. But, our country has always been a melting pot, and you can't ignore the fact that Muslims, Buddists, Jews are all part of our culture. Even Wicca is now recognized as a legitimate religion. It may not be that way in this little corner of the South, but when you travel around the country, it's pretty clear that they are here to stay. And the beauty of it is that they are largely accepted into the community. And what makes our country great, is that we do this.

Most of the earliest settlers came to our country for religious freedom. So no doubt that influenced the Founding Father -- but I've also think that the wording was deliberate to show the King of England that they believed that there was a higher authority than just a King. You may recall from history this notion of the divine rigt of Kings -- that God spoke directly to Kings and the Kings authority came directly from God, so Kings could do whatever they wanted. I think the Founding Fathers challenged that notion by the wording of our Declaration of Independence. We don't know what was in their minds, other than what was written down at the time. I don't think there were a lot of Buddist and Muslims and such strutting the streets of Philadelphia and Boston at the time, so who knows what the wording might had been if there were.

But, again, it is "cheap sentiment" to me, when someone tries to wrap themselves in "God" and Christianity as a means of making some political point about money and currency. For me, God is in my heart, so I don't care if our currency reads in God we trust, or in Dog we trust. It's much too important to derive it's significance from that.