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Four House Democrats -- Gary Ackerman and Nydia Velazquez of New York, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Mel Watt of North Carolina -- voted present.

Wimps. At least the dissenters had the courage to vote no.

Whew! Now that we've got God back in the Pledge, God will be pleased and protect us, and we no longer have to fear those atheist Muslim terrorists who ironically call us Infidels. I'm glad our politicians are doing something meaningful. Of course, Muslim terrorists may say that they trust in God too, but since we don't like that their "trust" results in mass murder, I suppose they must really be atheists in disguise.

But then: maybe radical Muslims are right in trusting God, since He certainly seemed to be doing their bidding last week when all those people were killed in the tornadoes -- as well as those poor schoolchildren in Italy buried after the quake. Saved them a lot of bother with getting explosives, manpower, etc. As I've said before, if terrorists were responsible for those deaths, any decent person would be outraged and sickened. But since they occurred because of "an act of God" we're supposed to "trust" and praise God instead and bask in His eternal love for us. Well, if terrorists kill a whole bunch of people, how do we know this wasn't part of "God's plan," that we cannot, as human beings, rationally fathom? Shouldn't we just trust and praise the terrorists when they commit mass murder for doing God's bidding? Can we be so presumptuous as to know what God's plan really is?

It's ironic that the motivation during the Cold War for removing the secular Pledge and secular National Motto and replacing them both with religious ones, was to draw a distinction between the "religious" U.S. and the "atheistic" Soviet Union. But now that the threat is from RELIGIOUS tyrants, who use religion to justify mass murder, our politicians find it important to affirm our own religiosity. Go figure.

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