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Re: Blue Fin post# 5090

Monday, 02/25/2008 10:08:01 PM

Monday, February 25, 2008 10:08:01 PM

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This is something else I object to


the whole notion of "Blame America First." It's a red herring. This is simply a right-wing talking point/slogan, meant to deflect the spotlight from their spurious actions and to stop conversation cold. Sort of like someone dropping an anti-semitic charge or a Hitler reference in conversation.

First, are you saying America is never to blame? For anything? Ever?

Second, it's NOT un-patriotic to question your government, in fact, it's almost required as an American. Somewhere that's gotten lost.

Third, I'm fairly tired of people wearing their religion and their patriotism on their sleeve. To me it looks awfully contrived. To constantly use this as a cudgel smacks of demagoguery.

I can be patriotic and/or religious privately. And I don't need to use them against people or to judge them by it. We certainly could use more separation of Church and State...just as our Founding Fathers intended. They were, for the most part, deists. Ones who believed in a personal and private relationship with god or whatever they tended toward.

And as the point was wonderfully made in the joke goin fishin posted, which minutely fragmented segment of Christianity should hold sway?

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