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TO MY FELLOW CHRISTIANS: THE FLAG IS AN IDOL!
Flag Or The Cross? ^
Posted on 03/14/2003 8:03:57 PM PST by LalahLand
I am curious to find out why some of my fellow Christians still recite the pledge of allegiance. When you "pledge your allegiance" to an inanimate object you are basically worshipping that object. Am I missing something here? Why do some of us choose to salute and break one of the most important commandments? Shouldn't our pledge of allegiance be to God, and not a piece of cloth? The pledge of allegiance to the flag basically states that we will (blindly) support the flag and the actions of our government without question. That is the very essence of what idolatry is all about! Please check out the attached article.
idol SYLLABICATION: i·dol PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: dl KEY NOUN: 1a. An image used as an object of worship. b. A false god. 2. One that is adored, often blindly or excessively.
idolatry SYLLABICATION: i·dol·a·try PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: -dl-tr KEY NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. i·dol·a·tries 1. Worship of idols. 2. Blind or excessive devotion to something.
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To: LalahLand
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Allegiance is what we pledge.
Allegiance: "Loyalty or the obligation of loyalty, as to a nation, sovereign, or cause."
Allegiance is not a form of worship. Go bark up some other tree.
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:17:18 PM PST
by
seams2me
("if they pass the reading test, it means they learned to read" GWB 1/8/03)
To: LalahLand
"Christian" come on! Are you a jehova's witless?
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:17:21 PM PST
by
Theophilus
(why bless them little cheeky dix's hearts.)
To: LalahLand
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:17:30 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: LalahLand
![](http://www.bestcareanywhere.net/postcards/flagg.jpg)
Don't play dumb. You're not as good at it as I am.
To: Maedhros
Beware the Ides of March...
To: LalahLand
You joined today just to post this silliness?
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:18:07 PM PST
by
Poohbah
(Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
To: Paul Atreides
Just make sure if you do that, you post a breaking news thread about it (because the Dixie Chicks are important), and then check in on the official Dixie Chicks thread so we can track it. Thanks, AM
To: LalahLand
It must be horrible to be you...
To: LalahLand
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:18:28 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: Admin Moderator
It's times like these when I really miss the classic Viking Kittens marauding to the "Immigrant Song."
To: Admin Moderator
Leave it be. We'll take care of it.
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:18:34 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: LalahLand
What tripe.
An idol is something that is worshiped as a Creator or a Redeemer, something to which idolaters ascribe supernatural powers. If you worship an idol--in the Bible they tended to be some form of nature worship, e.g.: the sun, the Nile, sacred animals--you are substituting something else for Jehovah, or God. You aren't giving the Man upstairs His due props, to put it in the vernacular. Thus endeth Idolatry 101.
The flag is NOT an idol. It is a symbol of the greatest nation on God's green earth. We do NOT worship the flag, nor do we worship our country, because neither the flag nor the country created us nor can they redeem us.
But we do REVERE both the flag and the country, for the freedoms and liberty we enjoy here. We pledge allegiance to the country for which the flag stands, and there is certainly nothing unChristian in that. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:18:36 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
(Love, peace, and harmony: Very nice, very nice, very nice...but maybe in the next world.)
To: LalahLand
To: LalahLand
The whiff of ozone is in the air.
I suppose this whatever wants us to grovel at the flag of the United Nations instead, who shouts "xenophobia" as robotic as it shots "racist" and "homophobia".
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:18:41 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
To: LalahLand
Breaking news??
To: LalahLand
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:18:53 PM PST
by
Maedhros
(They haif said. Quhat say they? Let thame say.)
To: Admin Moderator
Should we sick the rabid bartender on this one?Mmmmmmm, how about those pagan Viking kittens?
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:19:42 PM PST
by
dighton
To: jbstrick
Yes "LalahLand" There is a Santa Claus
To: LalahLand
You're not thinking outside a box. You have put yourself inside a box called religion and can only see the world wtih that world view. Don't come around here talking about "thinking outside the box" until you get yourself out of the box.
To: Maedhros
I have no idea what your tagline means, but I like it.
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posted on
03/14/2003 8:19:53 PM PST
by
seams2me
("if they pass the reading test, it means they learned to read" GWB 1/8/03)
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