BS: US ...pledge of allegiance ruled out!

Subject: RE: BS: US ...pledge of allegiance ruled out!
From: CapriUni
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 06:16 PM

Jerry: I read somewhere that they're going to make the expression Geez! illegal because it's short for Jesus.

Oh, Geez!

(Or maybe, as a Pagan, I should say "S'horns!" [short for: The God's horns])

Please, please, please tell me you read this in The Onion.

Subject: RE: BS: US ...pledge of allegiance ruled out!
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 06:49 PM

BillD, you are on an eloquent roll today; I love it when you do that! what Bill said! Can we copy and paste that to our congresspeople?!*g*

Subject: RE: BS: US ...pledge of allegiance ruled out!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 06:54 PM

Hi, Capri:

Nope, just trying to add alittle lightness to this thread. It all goes back to MY childhood. One of my closest friends when I was eight or nine years old (whose Mother had basically abandoned him from birth and only let him live with her occasionally) caught Dick saying "Geez!" and she insisted that it was short for Jesus. I thought that was very weird, and I said Geez all the time (pretty bland in my neighborhood) and had never thought I was using a code word for Jesus. But, after Dick was punished for it, he tried to break the habit by saying "Jeepers" instead. When his Mother heard him say "Jeepers!" she figured he was just using a more obscure variant on Jesus (as In Jesus, Creesus, where'd you get those peepers.) So, Dick had to break that habit, and did so by saying "Jeeps." For some reason, she didn't associate that with swearing so, well into High School Dick was the only guy I knew who said "Jeeps!" Not even Beaver Cleaver said Jeeps.

So what does this have to do with anything? I don't find this whole thing a major issue, one way or the other. Now if SAYING the pledge of allegiance would create liberty and justice for all, we wouldn't be in the mess that we're in today. To use an old biblical term in a thread that is pretty antagonistic to such things, I judge a tree by its fruit. I think that it's very wise to have a sceptical attitude toward government. I don't think taking "Under God" out will have any effect on this country, any more than leaving it in has. Taking it out will offend different people than leaving it in has. That's about all...

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: US ...pledge of allegiance ruled out!
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jun 02 - 06:57 PM

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