dannyman.toldme.com

About Me : Free Style : Good Reads : News and Reaction : Photographs : Technical : Travels : Unsorted

Search:
September 16, 2005
Letters to The Man, Politics, Religion

Jesus McChrist Writes Back

Well, they haven’t updated their website yet but the AFA are advocating that Congress pass a bill that reads:

S.1046 - The Pledge Protection Act of 2005 - reads as follows: ‘No court created by Act of Congress shall have any jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court shall have no appellate jurisdiction, to hear or decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity under the Constitution of, the Pledge of Allegiance, as defined in section 4 of title 4, or its recitation.’

Now, while I can appreciate concern that some might have about “activist judges” this “activist legislative pre-judgement” or whatever you’d call it, uhmmm. Well, Jesus McChrist wrote them back:

Hello,

I enjoy receiving your action alerts. But this latest one about the The Pledge Protection Act of 2005 leaves me a bit puzzled — do you think Atheists should continue to be required to bear false witness by swearing allegiance under a God in which they do not believe? Isn’t that blasphemy? Or should Athiests simply be expelled from the country? I’m not sure what you intend the law to do about this religious minority. I would hope that you have the compassion of my namesake, and advocate that our national pledge adopt a secular wording, so that all Americans can be honest about their religious faith.

Thank you for your time and your ongoing efforts on our behalf.

Sincerely,
Jesus

I am, sincerely, curious what self-professed decent Christians think about the question of Atheists pledging allegiance to a God in which they do not believe. Seems like a big problem to me.

Read More

Next: 70% Girl
Previous: What is Danny’s f!cking problem?
Categories: Letters to The Man, Politics, Religion
Possibly-Related Posts
“What about ‘Under God?’”
Good Luck, Michael Newdow!
Getting out from “Under God”
Amen, Mr. Newdow!
One Nation, Indivisible
Utah’s Memorial Crosses
Choosing Morality

Response

September 16th, 2005

sam

The interesting part is subsection (b):

`(b) The limitation in subsection (a) does not apply to–

`(1) any court established by Congress under its power to make needful rules and regulation respecting the territory of the United States; or

`(2) the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.’.

Comment / Tip

. . . or leave a Tip

Leave a comment . . .

  1. For private messages, e-mail me: dannyman@toldme.com
  2. I will not publish or share your e-mail address.
  3. I will not spam you.
  4. Therefor: no anonymous posts; send me your e-mail address!
(required)
(required)

. . . comments from new posters will be held for screening.

Danny Howard is 100% responsible for the content on this site, except some of it is stolen.

All rights are reserved, unless otherwise noted. Generally, I'm a BSD guy, so you can assume implicit permission to adapt, modify, and redistribute my intellectual property with appropriate attribution. Except some of this content is itself re-appropriated, so you'd best ask first, especially for commercial use. Thanks!

You can contact me via e-mail: dannyman@toldme.com

Most of http://dannyman.toldme.com/ is powered by WordPress.

If you're hip to RSS and whatnot, you can subscribe to this site.

These links are for dannyman: login AND backlinks