Michael Newdon at it again (reject, blood, America, experience)

[Bright-ness' Shadow]

Originally Posted by pah

Then, it would seem to me, there would be small chance that America could hold out after the Holy See goes secular. That also seems to me to be a marketing "turn of phrase" that lacks any reasoning.

Bob

Is in response to " Wait until it becomes nessecary to rephrase it to: "The only nation under God." I was thinking that (the Holy See) was one nation that would not become secular - my "small chance" was an exaggeration for effect.

Not only does it lose it's punch when an explanation is necessary but it shows I blew the chance for a great "zinger" (at least it was great in my mind when I wrote it). Ah, the agony of defeat by honest critics!

But hopefully I conveyed the thought that this was but another "catchy" phrase, a la Madison Ave, much like the scoffing "Adam and Steve".

Bob

[Anti-Manicheist]

I think this needs to be approached more carefully this time. Removal of "under God" must reflect how the pledge was meant to be a statement of political, not monotheistic, solidarity and not part of a "separation of Church/State" purge of all aspects of the US's religious heritage.

dlw