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The U. S. Senate has condemned the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling on the Pledge of Allegience by a 99-0 margin.
President Bush calls the decision idiotic.
Tom Dasshole says it's nuts. (Yes he really said nuts)
Immediately after the ruling over 50 congressman and Senate leaders went to the steps of the capitol and recited the Pledge of Allegiance..YELLING the phrase "One Nation under GOD!"
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Azizza had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Immediately after the ruling over 50 congressman and Senate leaders went to the steps of the capitol and recited the Pledge of Allegiance..YELLING the phrase "One Nation under GOD!"
And then their mommies picked them up. Talk about childish. And these are our political leaders? 
The 9th Circuit is the nation's most overturned appellate court partly because it is the largest, but also because it tends to make liberal, activist opinions, and because the cases it hears on a range of issues from environmental laws to property rights to civil rights tend to challenge the status quo.
<--- Doesnt Really Care
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From the book of Delphi Aegis, chapter 3, verse 16:
I can honestly say that I dont give a flying fuck.
Then why did you post?
I don't mean to sound harsh, but if you have nothing to contribute to a conversation but statements of indifference that nobody cares about, just don't contribute at all.
I'm sure people don't like having random folk come into their threads and say, "I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS!"
Consider it in the future 
Isn't that a bit more healthy a way to think about it?
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ACES! Another post by Azizza:
I pulled these off off the AP website. It makes me feel a little better.AP
The U. S. Senate has condemned the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling on the Pledge of Allegience by a 99-0 margin.President Bush calls the decision idiotic.
Tom Dasshole says it's nuts. (Yes he really said nuts)
Immediately after the ruling over 50 congressman and Senate leaders went to the steps of the capitol and recited the Pledge of Allegiance..YELLING the phrase "One Nation under GOD!"
Imagine that we have a majority of chirstian politicians. Then the minority don't want to comit political suicide by voting against an overwhelming majority. I'm going to go against the majority and say the supreme court will uphold this political ruling due to the way that they have rulled in the past, and because there isn't anything anyone in Washington can do to affect them. However I fear that I am wrong.
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Nobody really understood why Naimah wrote:
Imagine that we have a majority of chirstian politicians.
More than just christians believe in a god.
In fact, if I recall correctly, the tally is somewhere around 98% of all humanity believing in one supreme entity or another.
They could have at least had more tact in doing so.
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Maradön² attempted to be funny by writing:
More than just christians believe in a god.In fact, if I recall correctly, the tally is somewhere around 98% of all humanity believing in one supreme entity or another.
Can't be right, given the large number of Buddhists, Taoists, Confuscusists, and Jedi (yes, that is a real religion!) that exist. [ 06-27-2002: Message edited by: Vorbis of Pie ]
[ 06-27-2002: Message edited by: Naimah ]
Some fuckheads say "you know, these two words offend us, so we're going to fight against them" and swing the pendulum one way...
...the government picks up the slack and swings it back the other.
Not that I agree with the morons in the first place, I just don't like the American public's tendency to swing to extremes.
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Maradön² wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
More than just christians believe in a god.In fact, if I recall correctly, the tally is somewhere around 98% of all humanity believing in one supreme entity or another.
That many? I thought China and the USSR (yea I know, but it more in kepping with tee board theme) made up more then 2% of the pop.
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Naimah painfully thought these words up:
By christian I mean the judist based religions and well that covers just about every major western religion.
So jews are christians now?
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Can't be right, given the large number of Buddhists, Taoists, Confuscusists, and Jedi (yes, that is a real religion!) that exist.
2% of 8 billion is a large number.
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Naimah thought about the meaning of life:
I'm sorry but christians are just jews that want to add some stuff on. They use the same first four books and then the christians just keep making them up to and keep up with the times. The jews just don't care, I think that is why everone hates them.
So Christians are Jews, that makes more sense, but Jews certainly aren't christians
In saying that not only Christians believe in a god, I meant to convey that this is that the pledge of allegiance is not nesscessarily a pledge to a christian god, or even to any specific god at all.
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So quoth Naimah:
Why should someone that dosn't believe in anyones god have to pledge to a god?
Because from a non-denominational viewpoint the word god is completely arbitrary in every sense except the fact that it's a force for good.
It's all a matter of symantics.
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King Parcelan's account was hax0red to write:
Then why did you post?I don't mean to sound harsh, but if you have nothing to contribute to a conversation but statements of indifference that nobody cares about, just don't contribute at all.
I'm sure people don't like having random folk come into their threads and say, "I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS!"
Consider it in the future
Ah, j00 called me out.
Allright. I dont care, because even if they remove the words in question, I STILL wont say the pledge. I never have. Seems silly to me.
No, I'm not un american.. I just believe that some things in this world are just plain silly, and shouldnt be done.
Thus I kinda snicker at the people who are getting their panties in a wad about all this.
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From the book of Naimah, chapter 3, verse 16:
You may believe it is a word for a force of good. But what if someone else believes that it is the cause of millions if not billions of lives being lost?
That would be a force for evil, and the word "god" isn't used in such a context anywhere.
At the very worst the term "god" is used neutrally in polytheistic societies, as a force that might be for either good or evil, though this case is rare.
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Naimah had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Well I believe someone's god had an influence in the crusades, the holocaust, and the recent terrorist attacks. That is the god that I see.
That is the christian god that you see.
You see, the word god has two senses. The word God is a proper noun, referring most often to the God of christianity. The word god, however, is an indefinate noun, and thereby a completely arbitrary term with almost no inherent meaning, save a vague indication of good.
Rather than the use of the word, I would rather they argue over it's capitolization.
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Naimah's fortune cookie read:
I don't blame god for peoples actions. I blame peoples belief in a god for their actions. There is a differance.
What's the point?
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Densetsu probably says this to all the girls:
I am going to kill you in the name of this Pepsi can!What's the point?
We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen! 
[edit]OMFG u sux chainquote code fag whore fag fag[/edit] [ 06-27-2002: Message edited by: Delphi Aegis ]
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Densetsu had this to say about John Romero:
[QUOTE]Naimah's fortune cookie read:
[qb]I don't blame god for peoples actions. I blame peoples belief in a god for their actions. There is a differance.
What's the point?[/QB][/QUOTE]
That dosn't make sense to me. Maybe it is just too late.
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Densetsu's account was hax0red to write:I am going to kill you in the name of this Pepsi can!
What's the point?[/QB]
Not nearly as many people have been killed in the name of that Pepsi Can,
Honestly, I just feel it's silly to have mandatory recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance....
Do you really need to daily pledge your allegiance?
I doubt I'd have any less of an opinion of this nation if I wasn't forced (forced in the terms of, I don't want to get in trouble) to recite the Pledge...
To be honest, by the time you learn what 75% of the Pledge means, you've already memorized it, and each day, you're merely reciting it, not really pledging your allegiance....
I just say, it's such a minor thing to get up in arms about.
it's christian god vs. other GODS.
they said it was cause it was puhing monotheism.
I'm not saying I support it, but those'r the facts, folks. :P
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they said it was cause it was puhing monotheism.I'm not saying I support it, but those'r the facts, folks. :P
The guy who brought the lawsuit to the Circuit Court in the first place was an Atheist who didn't want his son to have to pledge to God in school.
And, for the record, I'm agnostic.
In the beginning the Universe was created.Douglas Adams, 1952-2001
Most people seem to be up in arms about the supreme court's decision because the nation was founded "under god." And thos people fighting for that belief feel that if you take that idea away, you're destroying what the nation was founded upon.
Two words that I really don't acknowledge mean little to me. They mean a lt to other people, however, and I suppose that's what makes them so important.
And Maradon, I don't know where you got your statistic but your wording of it and its result seems skewed. Mind posting a link to its source? (If you haven't already?)
You also seem to imply that in a generic definition of good there is a sense of 'good'. Using www.dictionary.com I can find nothing that implies that god, the generic one, not a specific one, is good. [ 06-27-2002: Message edited by: Majox ]
