Evolution and the Public School System (country, house, Genesis, Religious)

lucifer_sam · 01-08-2009, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepy jack

You clearly don't understand what symbolism can do. It can inspire and it can destroy. By putting In God We Trust on our currency and reciting Under God at all major events you're setting a standard. A standard which government and policies will follow with as long as you allow it to continue. They're making it sound like Manifest Destiny is still with us today. Once you remove Under God, gay marriage, abortion laws, education reform, etc will follow suit and stop being an issue. Words are the most powerful thing in the world. You would do well to learn this.

Wow, you sure are a benevolent and wise seventeen-year-old.

Don't you think you're oversimplifying this a bit? These issues have been issues for the last thirty years - abortion has come up every year in the platforms since Roe v. Wade happened, thirty-five years ago. A token phrase elimination isn't going to completely change the American population's stance towards these issues. These things take time. The Civil Rights Act was created almost forty years ago and reparations have yet to trickle down to impoverished minorities. What makes these issues so simple to resolve?