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Stiddlefix. He sent me an intriguing article of which is included here further down for all to read. I hope no one pegs me down on this article as I just got through yet again dismissing labels and stereotyping people for their beliefs, interests, etc. as being the basis of ignorance. Still if anyone wants to comment go ahead, btw the only statement that one can quote me on is �I�m just my own indescribable indefinable unique self!". I wonder how many more people will remove me from their favorites list as I continue the talk about tolerance and liberty for all in my journal, probably most on there. I always reply to any question but people would rather ignore such talk and discussion because at heart they abhor liberty for all. But certain individuals will hide behind ignorance to shine whatever I express in this entry most likely as an attack on Christianity which it is not. So before I finish I'll add this quote by former Attorney Janet Reno which should sicken any reasonable person as well as show my arms like those on the cross extend both ways for fairness and justice for all:

"A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a christian cause; who home schools their children; who has stored up survival foods and has a strong belief in the second amendment; and who distrusts big government. Any of these may qualify a person as a cultist, but certainly, more than one of these would cause us to look at this person as a threat, and his family as being in a risk situation that qualifies for government interference."

If anyone disputes my post here today, speak up and if you have a queation ASK and don't judge without doing so first. Well on with the quotes first then the article...

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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go around repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence."
-- Charles Austin Beard

"Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path."
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
--Mohandas K Gandhi

"There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity, hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom. The other vision finds its roots in the spirit of our founding revolution and in the leaders of this nation who embraced the age of reason. It loves freedom, encourages diversity, embraces science and affirms the dignity and rights of every individual. It sees America as a moral nation, neither completely religious nor completely secular. It defines patriotism as love of country and of the people who make it strong. It defends all citizens against unjust coercion and irrational conformity. This second vision is our vision. It is the vision of a free society. We must be bold enough to proclaim it and strong enough to defend it against all its enemies."
-- Rabbi Sherwin Wine

"This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy." U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT

"It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into laws."
-- Thomas Sowell

>"Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute."
-- Joseph Campbell

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."
-- Helen Keller

"I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes-- a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection. Where I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. . . I. . . hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land."
-- Frederick Douglass

"Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name -- which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right. Similarly, people are and should be perplexed when the religious lobbying group Christian Voice publishes a morality index of congressional voting records, which judges the morality of senators by their attitude toward Zimbabwe and Taiwan."
-- Senator Edward Kennedy

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature"
-- George Washington

"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him."
-- President John F. Kennedy

"He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard."--Franklin's Autobiography

"I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious I am no Christian..."
-- Ethan Allen

"The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity."
-- John Adams

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some."
-- Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Lee v. Weisman

"Among the most detestable villains in history, you could not find one worse than Moses, who gave an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers and then rape the daughters. One of the most horrible atrocities found in the literature of any nation. I would not dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book."
-- Thomas Paine

"No qualification of wealth, of birth, of religious faith, or civil profession, is permitted to fetter the judgment or disappoint the inclination of the people."
-- Alexander Hamilton

"Christianity is the cause of pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
-- James Madison

"...church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued."
-- Rev. Isaac Backus

"The founding fathers did not mention God in the Constitution, and the faithful often regarded our early presidents as insufficiently pious. George Washington was a nominal Anglican who rarely stayed for Communion. John Adams was a Unitarian, which Trinitarians abhorred as heresy. Thomas Jefferson, denounced as an atheist, was actually a deist who detested organized religion and who produced an expurgated version of the New Testament with the miracles eliminated. Jefferson and James Madison, a nominal Episcopalian, were the architects of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. James Monroe was another Virginia Episcopalian. John Quincy Adams was another Massachusetts Unitarian."
-- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

"The greatest achievement ever made in the cause of human progress is the total and final separation of church and state. If we have nothing else to boast of, we could lay claim with justice that the first among the nations we of this country made it an article of organic law that the relations between man and his maker were a private concern, into which other men have no right to intrude. To measure the stride thus made for the Emancipation of the race, we have only to look back over the centuries that have gone before us, and recall the dreadful persecutions in the name of religion that have filled the world."
-- David Dudley Field

"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity [of opinion]. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."
-- Robert H. Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 1943

"An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
-- Eugene J. McCarthy

"Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives."
-- Barry Goldwater

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate."
-- Ulysses S. Grant

"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."
-- James Madison

"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
-- Mark Twain

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power."
-- Alexander Hamilton

"We have to tolerate things that we don't necessarily like, so we can be free. Free press is not just freedom for the thought you love, but freedom for the thought you hate."
-- Larry Flynt

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
-- Bishop Desmond Tutu

"To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of his individual identity and distinctness. He must cease to be George, Hans, Ivan, or Tadao -- a human atom with an existence bounded by birth and death. The most drastic way to achieve this end is by the complete assimilation of the individual into a collective body. The fully assimilated individual does not see himself and others as human beings. When asked who he is, his automatic response is that he is a German, a Russian, a Japanese, a Christian, a Moslem, a member of a certain tribe or family. He has no purpose, worth and destiny apart from his collective body; and as long as that body lives he cannot really die."
-- Eric Hoffer

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand."
-- Confucius

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours."
-- Tecumseh

"My own mind is my own church."
-- Thomas Paine

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
-- Dalai Lama

"The kingdom of God is within you."
-- Jesus

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Where, say some, is the king of America? I'll tell you, friend, He reigns above."
-- Thomas Paine

"God speaks through me."
-- President George W. Bush, July 9, 2004

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-- Mohandas Gandhi

You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend asked the devil, �What did that man pick up?� �He picked up a piece of the truth,� said the devil. �That is very bad business for you, then� said his friend. �Oh, not at all,� the devil replied, �I am going to help him organize it.�
--Jiddu Krishnamurti



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In Love We Trust. Such words, for me, deeply resonate with the idea of the America envisioned by Thomas Paine, the Father of the American Revolution; words that are however, undeniably in opposition to the current, clearly unconstitutional, monotheistic National Motto 'In God We Trust', which replaced the Franklin, Jefferson and Adams 'E Pluribus Unum' during the McCarthy Era.

America's Founding Fathers were quite wise advocates of a religious neutral Nation; of course most were Deists, not Christians. However, that neutrality, and their maxim, "From many, One", has lost its appeal within contemporary Christian Groupthink. A groupthink that says religious beliefs is an important factor when they vote. A groupthink that does not have its roots in the 18th Century Independence of America, but through 20th Century Christian Reconstructionism.

This new Christianity induces that America was founded as One Nation under their God. Yet the truth is, according to such eminent persons as Herman C. Weber DD, an expert in religious census and statistics, few early Americans were affiliated with Christianity. In the 1933 Yearbook of American Churches, the census of 1800 showed just 6.9% of US citizens as belonging to a church. By 1850, Christian membership rose to 15.5%. In 1900, Christians doubled their number to 37%. But, not until 1942, just 8 years before Senator Joseph McCarthy brought his offensive, monotheism into government and subsequently, the Republican Party into power, did Christian participation exceed 50%.

In 1954, at the height of McCarthy's fear based agenda, much like today�s reactionary political deceit, Congress began officially putting Christianity's monotheistic God in government, with the addition of the words 'under god' in the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by the change of the US Motto to reflect the new Christian majority's agenda. But now it's time to get it out. It's time for Christians to start rendering to America what is America's, in compliance with their Matthew 22:21. America is a secular nation; a nation whose founding principles could be a guiding light for the World. Yet Christians fail to realize that their First Commandment is in direct opposition my First Amendment; the truth is, for the most part, their Ten Commandments are everything that my Constitution is not. Christian values are inherently anti-American values. In fact that was an influencing consideration to begin the First Amendment as a pronouncement to first protect us from religion, and second to allow the free exercise thereof. Thus it is time to rise loudly and bring back the intended values of the Constitution, while simultaneously dissolving this anti-American despotism and revisionism usurping our Nation.

The US Ninth Circuit Court in 2002 was right on the mark when it said "The Pledge, as currently codified [with under god], is an impermissible government endorsement of religion because it sends a message to unbelievers "that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community."

National Mottos gives direction and purpose to a Country. The present Motto, although accepted by the majority, precipitates intolerance, and denies full membership in America for those who do not adhere to the Abrahamic concepts of a monotheistic God. Even George Bush Sr has shown ineptness on the Constitution, when, on August 27, 1987 he said, "I don't know that those who do not believe in God should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God". To me, this is most serious, and most un-American. Yet that mentality, an anti-American mentality, pervades this Country and its Leadership. As such, the Life, Liberty and Quality of the Nation is under a clear and present danger; threatened, not by a foreign enemy, but a domestic one, an enemy from within who think they're being patrioted..

On Constitutional matters, contrary to the groupthink media-ted by these Reactionaries attempting to rewrite history from their own predisposed, faith-driven point of view, there is no majority rule. The majority has no right to tyrannize the minority because they do not adhere to the majority's belief in their monotheistic religion and morals dispensed three thousand years ago by people who thought the Earth was flat. Today�s conservative theocracizing of America would have most, if not all, of America's Founding Fathers literally up in-arms. They would ask, what Country do these monotheists think they live in; it certainly isn't America. Simply consider that under George Washington, a document was drafted in 1796, then unanimously ratified by the US Senate and sign into law on June 10, 1797 by President John Adams which said, "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion".

Even though that document, the Treaty with Tripoli, less then two pages, was read aloud in Congress without dissension, and well publicized at the time, there were no complaints or public outcry, as when Christians balked over the illegality of the addition of 'under god' in the Pledge. In fact, at the signing of the above 1797 document, Adams said, "Now be it known, that I, John Adams, President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. And to the End, may it be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the premises to be made public; and I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office civil or military within the United States, and all other citizens or inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfill every clause and article thereof".

If America is to faithfully observe and fulfill every clause and article of that document, it is time to replace the McCarthy Era motto of 'In God We Trust', but instead of going back to 'E Pluribus Unum', I suggest we take a step forward in our evolution and replace it with 'In Love We Trust'. Imagine America, the first Nation to trust in Love. But what is Love? What is Trust?

Most Christians believe the God they invoke while spreading their faith is love. However, in the whole of their Holy Book, the Bible, it only suggests the idea that this God is love at the very end, in the late 2nd Century apology 1John. In fact, when viewing the full length and breadth of the Bible, their Patriarch is clearly a murderous, pro-slavery, vacillant, petty, racist, conditional God. And amazingly, a God who is so insecure, that it demands to be worshipped, obeyed and prayed to.

Christian love, like the love of their God, what they often call agape, is merely a conditional love. To better understand this type of love, simply consider the Great Love Chapter of Christendom, Corinthians 13; ie., "love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things", 1 Cor 13:7. Although this form of love, that is, bearing, believing, hoping and enduring is more compassionate then passionate, more commitment orientated then fleeting, it isn't Unconditional Love, but the submission, devotion, expectation and suffering to the conditions of their beliefs. Thus, no matter how one perceives it, experience born of belief can only be experienced through the condition of that belief. A self-perpetuating delusion.

Passionate or emotional love is another type of conditional love. This is the love of solicitudal desire and enthralled obsession. Such love is usually, but not necessarily, accompanied by biological, chemical or instinctual love, which manifests a yearning for the welfare, possession and companionship of another. Ordinarily, emotional love is based on something received through physiological or psychological arousal, and commonly includes, as in Christian love, an attached expectation.

The highest love a human can awaken to is the amoral intimacy of Conscious Love. This is the Love of the Bodhisattva; the wish for the well being and liberation of all; without predisposition, and indifferent towards the consequences to the lover. Contrary to the thinking of many, Buddhists do not believe in a God; but they do recognize Love.

A wish, in the above context, is not synonymous with hope or desire. Hope and desire belong to an anticipation and expectation of the future. Hope and desire ensues from the thought of lack; that things should be other than they are. A wish on the other hand, is an intention, unencumbered by predisposition; to allow Love to flow, and arrive at its own harmonium.

Individuality is incessantly convinced of its separateness; it bears, believes, hopes, and endures within a perceived encapcilated form, manifesting conditions that perpetually repeat themselves. A wish arises from the Heart of ones Essence. There is no absence of Love, anywhere; only an enshrouding by the beliefs that have been built against it. Thus, to realize the love that we are, complete and without lack, we simply bring love to another.

The fragrance of love is as a tremendum uncovered by surrendering expectation, and through that immediacy, witness a grand preferenceless reality. A reality of Love's own flow; unveiled of what belief and predisposition think it should be. If America's self-proclaimed moral majority wants to cling to their beliefs, so be it. I would suggest however that they consider Jesus' own litmus test for determining the true Christian faithful, as published in the canonized text, ...Mark 16:16-18. A true Christian, "the man who accepts baptism, ...will be able to drink deadly poison without harm". After all, Thess 5:21 says "prove all things", ...and since Christians say there are no contractions in the Bible, these good Christians should readily welcome Jesus' own test. Perhaps some of these Reconstructionists could lead the way and be the first to prove their faith.

Belief implies doubt. It is merely a concept we use to make the unknown palatable. To trust in a monotheistic god, or any belief, is committing ones reliance, dependence, certitude, allegiance and potential transcendence to something that is not ratiocinatively known to be true. If a belief were true, we wouldn't have to believe it. Failure to recognize the false as false, or a belief as that which suppresses, denies, dis-empowers and disconnects, is the ruination of destiny's and self-sabotage of the full expression of ones inherent talents.

If we are to trust, let our trust be with something we can never leave and that can never leave us. Let our trust be in love. We do not need to understand it fully. Love is not something that has been canonized, or whose definition has been closed to change, like Christian scripture. To trust in old myths, is not love, but blind faith perpetuated by our ancestors; a behavior no less than insanity. Simply consider the hundreds of conditions that the Judeao-Christian-Muslem Gods put on their faithful. Of course, to divert the truth and preserve the lie, their faithful insist on playing pick-n-choose with what the Bible actually says. Is it really a wonder why conservatives understand the dynamics of truth suppression so well?

Thomas Paine wrote, "It has often been said that anything may be proved from the Bible; but before anything can be admitted as proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true; for if the Bible be not true, or the truth of it be doubtful, it ceases to have authority, and cannot be admitted as proof of anything." Considering that, what if lying was crime. If it was, most religions would be no more than a few artifacts on the back walls of our local museums.

We'll have plenty of time to debate what love is. Of course we are far more aware of what Love is, than any concept of God. After all, love is inherent to all our natures, the essence beneath the belief laden veils of our Human Beingness; and not determined solely by religious affiliation. Love is the true intent of America. A Nation intended to be both free from, and free to, practice religion; although there certainly should be a NC-17 clause attached. So what better motto than 'In Love We Trust' to encourage us to fulfill the dream of America's Founding Fathers,...Of many, One.

There once was Freedom from Religion

On August 27, 1987 at a news conference in Chicago, Illinois, Robert I. Sherman, a reporter for the American Atheist news journal, fully accredited by the state of Illinois and by invitation a participating member of the press corps covering the national candidates asked the then Vice-President George H. W. Bush "What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are Atheists?" George Bush replied, "I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

Actually, George Bush was correct, since 1956 America has been one nation under Christianity's monotheistic God, and the former National Motto, E Pluribus Unum, 'From Many, One', was discarded. However, before the McCarthy Era, America was not a Christian Nation.

According to Article VI of the United States Constitution, "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land"

Under George Washington, such a supreme Law of the Land was drafted in 1796, then unanimously ratified by the US Senate and sign into law on June 10, 1797 by President John Adams which said:

"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded upon the Christian religion".

Even though that document was read aloud in Congress without dissension, and well publicized at the time, there were no complaints or public outcry, as when Christians balked over the illegality of the addition of 'Under God' in the Pledge. In fact, at the signing of the above 1797 document, Adams said, "Now be it known, that I, John Adams, President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. And to the end, may it be observed and performed with good faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the premises to be made public; and I do hereby enjoin and require all persons bearing office civil or military within the United States, and all other citizens or inhabitants thereof, faithfully to observe and fulfill every clause and article thereof".

However, most religious people in today�s America think that this Country was founded on Christian values. On February 10, 1814 Thomas Jefferson wrote that common law "is that system of law which was introduced by the Saxons on their settlement in England�about the middle of the fifth century. But Christianity was not introduced till the seventh century�We may safely affirm that Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." Christian values are not American values. For example, the 1st Commandment is in direct opposition to the 1st Amendment.

Most of America's Founding Father's were quite opposed to Christianity and its values. Neither George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Ethan Allen, John Adams, nor Thomas Jefferson were Christians (reference quotes below). Thomas Paine, the Father of the American Revolution ("Washington's sword would have been yielded in vain had it not been supported by the pen of Paine"-- James Monroe) and person who coined the term "United States of America", said "It has often been said that anything may be proved from the Bible; but before anything can be admitted as proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true; for if the Bible be not true, or the truth of it be doubtful, it ceases to have authority, and cannot be admitted as proof of anything." Few Americans realize that the first Christian President was the 7th, Andrew Jackson, and there have been several more non-Christian Presidents after him. "Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian" said Mary Todd Lincoln.

The group-think of Christians today argue that America was founded by the Pilgrims. This is not true. The first English colony was in 1609 Jamestown. Fewer than half of the 102 Mayflower passengers in 1620 were Pilgrims. Nor does Christianity have deep roots in the 18th Century Independence of America. Such a notion is purely 20th Century Christian Revisionism.

This new Christianity induces that America was founded as One Nation under their God. Yet the truth is, according to such eminent persons as Herman C. Weber DD, an expert in religious census and statistics, few early Americans were actually affiliated with Christianity. In the Yearbooks of American Churches, the census of 1800 showed just
6.9% of US citizens as belonging to a church. By 1850, Church membership rose to 15.5%. In 1900, Christians doubled their number to 37%. But, not until 1942, just 8 years before Senator Joseph McCarthy brought his conservative monotheism into government, and subsequently the Republican Party into the power it knows today, did Christian participation exceed 50%.

Today, all US Senators, whether Republican or Democrat, can in essence be labeled anti-Americans, following their vote against the 9th Circuit Court.

In May 2002, the 9th Circuit Court said that the "The Pledge, as currently codified, is an impermissible government endorsement of religion because it sends a message to unbelievers that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community."

In other words they said "Under God" promoted a situation where Atheists, Polytheists, Buddhists, Deists, Wiccans, Humanists, female based monotheists, etc, are not members of the Community. Nor, as George Bush said, "should they be considered patriots."

Written in 1892 and adopted by Congress as a patriotic tribute in 1942, the pledge did not originally include "under God." Congress inserted the constitutionally illegal phrase in 1954 during the McCarthy Era. Since then, Christian politicians have continued an agenda to make illegality legal, in violation of their oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States". Instead they have put their religion beliefs above the Law, and in principle engaged in the insurrection and rebellion against America (Section 3 of the 14th Amendment).

Unfortunately, many Americans haven't a clue about their Country. America is not one nation under a Christian majority, but one nation under a Constitution. Although the Constitution sets up a representative democracy, it specifically was amended with the Bill of Rights in 1791 to uphold individual and minority rights. On constitutional matters we do not have majority rule. The majority has no right to tyrannize the non-monotheists on matters of religion.

When history is viewed as it was, verses how today�s Christians wanted it to be, the intent of the 1st Amendment is obvious. "...no law respecting an establishment of religion (FREEDOM FROM RELIGION), or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (FREEDOM OF RELIGION).
� Vicente Marco

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