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To: Monorprise; Alamo-Girl
The phrase under God got added to the pledge in the 1950’s as a means to help distinguish us from the Soviet Union.

LOLOL!!! Well, they sure picked exactly the right phrase to do that!

Eventually, totalitarians are always shipwrecked in wrack and ruin on the rocks of their own prescribed yet fallacious ideology.... At least, that is the report of actual human history, so far.

"Under God" marks the territory of human liberty. Man has no liberty where God is expunged from sociopolitical questions. With God gone, there is only the State (i.e., "the federal government") to mete out our "human rights."

And the State will tell us what they are.

A warning: What the State can grant, it can rescind. If this were the actual case, human "rights" would be total fictions.

Where "man is the measure," humanity shrinks.

That's why the Framers insisted on a rule of law, not of men; and that rule of law is "guaranteed" by the Supreme Ruler of the Universe (Ben Franklin's term, IIRC).

In other words, we are a nation under God. This is what has always made America "exceptional."

May God ever bless America!

And you also, Monorprise!

49 posted on 06/21/2011 8:35:46 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through, the eye. — William Blake)
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To: betty boop
"Under God" marks the territory of human liberty. Man has no liberty where God is expunged from sociopolitical questions. With God gone, there is only the State (i.e., "the federal government") to mete out our "human rights."

And the State will tell us what they are.

A warning: What the State can grant, it can rescind. If this were the actual case, human "rights" would be total fictions.

SO very true. Thank you for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

50 posted on 06/21/2011 9:20:30 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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