Oh yeah that’s the right name. My bad. In a way, it is offensive to imply to a Quaker that there is some time that it’s okay to lie, since they consider it a sin right? Like, a religious offense?
Personally, I would take a solemn affirmation with more weight than a normal swearing. It would only really happen with someone who had thought about truth and honesty to that degree.
Plastic
I have a flag in front of my house. Why?
Because I love this country.
The firehouse across the street has one too.
My flag is clean, cared for. Illuminated at night, taken in on very bad storm days, dipped to half mast on those occasions that call for it. I replace my flag when it begins to show wear.
Their flag is tattered and torn, dirty and not illuminated at night, it’s been on that pole non-stop for more than 3 years now. When Senator McCain passed, they couldn’t even muster the energy to lower their flag. (I actually said something to them about this, they punted and said it ‘wasn’t a national thing’).
Yet, this building is filled every Sunday with hundreds of grifting gopers (the volunteer fire department is the heart of grift in most towns) fresh from church that SWEAR they are the most patriotic citizens in the country (I argue both points-patriotic AND citizen) while the symbol of that country languishes out front.
But come summer, their back field will be awash in their welps wearing our flag to cover their fat asses in a bathing suit.
If there was justice in this world, they would all have the dye in their suits run, to leave the ghost of that flag stained on their asses for weeks.
Exactly. If a “church” wants to participate in the commercial realm, they should do so in the same manner as their competitors. Otherwise let them abide by the same laws non-profits have to abide by.
And that means that, if Jerry Falwell Jr. wants to use his position to advance a political agenda, he needs to obey the relevant laws for PACs.
I meant to say the “Pledge of Allegiance” wording was changed in 1954.
Mea Culpa.
if someone, in a store, said that to me, I would slam down whatever I had purchased and demand they return my money…
How do you feel about an employee handing you your package or putting it in the shopping cart and saying to you as 70-year old woman (as I am) “Here you go young lady.”
if I took an oath with the ‘god’ thing included, I would consider that oath meaningless and void… and I was free to do whatever…since I do not have any idea what the god is or means… if these politicians actually believed in the god& its power… they would be scared shitless, and maybe they are.
lol. i’m 88 , I would consider that harmless…I have no idea why people say…‘you don’t look 88’, to which I usually reply…I have no idea what 88 looks like, its my first experience being 88…
No worries, formal names of religious sects is a fairly arcane bit of trivia.
Most modern quakers don’t use the terminology of “sin” , but yeah that’s pretty much the distinction I was trying to make.
“Who you callin’ young, mister!”
Please don’t. You’ll get put in the pokey, and we need you here.
…and you know this how?
What?!? You can’t be serious. That’s unconscionable.
If you’ve already gathered rocks, why waste time with sacks and bodies of water? Just use the damn rocks as prescribed in that book …
Shhhh. Don’t say that too loudly. Let what’s gonna happen, happen.
Heh, i could say it to that guy’s face and he’d do it just to test if it would happen.
Come to think of it…
Damn creators who can’t make up their freaking minds about what they want us to do.
You’ll figure it out. It’s not difficult.
Ah, an ass from Assville.
That must be your soul talking.