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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
I am a grump, fine. But you should not ask the whole country to pray "in Jesus' name" at the Inauguration of the President of the US. This is not a country which has an established religion. "In Jesus' name I pray", okay. But not "we".
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 4:47 PM, January 21, 2013
Kathie had this to say...
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At 11:59 AM, January 23, 2013
Brigid Daull Brockway had this to say...
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At 1:15 PM, January 23, 2013
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Inclusiveness apparently doesn't extend to the 20% of non-believing Americans.
Yet do you think there's any chance that he's going to convince the nut jobs who have been shrieking about his Islamic conspiracy for the last five years?
And I'd like to point out that when the founding fathers said "Freedom of Religion," they didn't mean "freedom to choose between whatever flavors of Christianity the mob deams acceptable."
And you know, our second president wasn't Christian - he was Unitarian and once said something to the effect that the world would be such a better place without religion. Our third filed the bible under "mythology" in his personal library. He actually took all of the passages of the bible he deemed worthwhile - the result was a pamphlet. James Madison, father of the constituion, was an atheist... yet we don't shriekingly vilify those guys.
No, of course he won't, Brigid. They'll just accuse him of faking it.
And we don't vilify TJ and Madison because the "we" you refer to simply refuse to believe they weren't Christian.
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