Posted by Steve on 09/18/07 14:24

"Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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> For the record, while I believe in God, to this very day I leave out the
> "under God" when I say the pledge. I was in high school when Eisenhower
> pushed that through and I resented its insertion even then. At that time
> I was much more active in my religion than I am now, but was I more
> concerned with the First Amendment. I have seen what has happened to
> religious minorities throughout history when the state had an "official
> religion".
>
> Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

and those who are great scholars are best equipped to easily recreate it.

(man i hate conventional 'wisdom'...but that's another topic altogether)

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