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...rallying cry in times of national crisis. During World War II, Congress officially recognized the pledge and changed its accompanying salute from an outstretched arm that resembled Hitler?s favored salute to the current right hand over the heart. In 1954, in the midst of the cold war against godless communism, President Eisenhower urged Congress to add the words under God to the oath to reaffirm "the transcendence of religious faith in America?s heritage and future." Now faced with a war of uncertain definition and length, the country has once again embraced the pledge as a talisman against harm...
...bringing the groups together in a fun environment. “If you are going to believe something, then make it a challenge, expend some energy, because beliefs are some of the most important things,” Smith said. “Once they see we are not godless heathens and once we see they are not out to put us on the rack, discussions are going to go much further...
...which leaves Indian romancers out in the cold, literally, where they face harassment from passersby and police alike. Rupak Manush, for one, insists love can't stay inside. The Calcuttan is demanding a Lover's Zone, a place where couples can make out in peace like their godless American counterparts. Manush says that if nothing is done by Valentine's Day, he will drag his 800 members of love?Lovers' Organization for Voluntary Exhibition?to the Calcutta Municipal Corporation where they "will organize a romance protest by kissing and embracing outside the building." This threat, surprisingly, has yet to bring...
Only the wealthy and the eccentric can afford the kind of opiate that produces illusions of a Godless universe. You must either have enough money or power to create your own personal universe and sustain notions of your personal sovereignty within it, or be so out of touch with the world as to believe you really are an existential island. It took an event like September 11th to break through our illusions of control and get us realize that this crazy world is in control, just not our own. When we get knocked off our vaulted thrones of security...
...Finally, the cold war was waged against a system that was officially godless, and which based its moral authority (however cynically) on what it conceived as a scientific understanding of the march of history. This claim, of course, could not withstand genuine scrutiny. Tellingly, many of the Soviet Union's most prominent dissidents, such as Andrei Sakharov, were scientists. They saw that the claims of communism couldn't be empirically validated; moreover, they had the courage to say that the evidence proved the opposite of communism's claim to build peace, happiness or even a decent...