RE: Student sits during pledge of allegiance; gets chair kicked out from beneath him
October 27, 2017 at 7:47 am
(October 27, 2017 at 12:02 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: If a person was a true Christian he would never, ever, pledge allegiance to the flag because to do so violates Yeshua's commandment in Matthew 5:34-37 as well as the rule in Exodus 20:7 about taking the name of God in vain.
IMO the pledge should be reserved for special unique events and not be regurgitated every 15 minutes. So when a politician gets sworn in he could say it or even when a person joins the military or the Slave Patrol.
I for one will never, ever say it again in any setting because I refuse to do what some crazy assed defrocked socialist Baptist minister imposed upon the country.
Lets not feed them. We all know this is the "True Scotsman" fallacy.
There is no right way to interpret any holy writing of any religion. Holy writings are not like Ikea furniture assemble manuals, "Insert slot a into slot b".
How one person of one sect of the same religion wishes another person of another sect of the same religion would interpret the same book does not change the fact they are both the same religion.
No different with Sunnis or Shiites. No different than a Tibet Buddhist vs a Chinese Buddhist or Japanese Buddhist.
The conservative Catholic League is not going to interpret the same bible the same way a liberal Catholic will. The Trump voting rural baptist isn't going to interpret the same writing the same way an Obama voting baptist would.
Your post isn't incorrect. You can always point to their own words and contradict them with the same book. But putting it like that misses the point that with any religion it always depends on the individuals "interpretation" and because there is no one way to do that, that is what allows the theist to cherry pick. Point is, you will find others who will point to other parts of that same book to justify religious patriotism.
My bigger picture point I frequently bring up as a reminder, is all these different religions and all the sub sects of all these different religions are all arguing the same thing. "I got it right".
It is a defense of a social norm, one sold most of the time to youth by the parents long before they can develop critical thinking skills.
Humans simply don't understand that our social grouping is evolutionary. Humans don't want to consider that our morality isn't being handed down to us from above by a cosmic sky wizard, nor is it jumping out of old books of mythology. Humans simply justify what they are sold.
