[Mr Rogers]

That’s OK. I still put my hand over my heart for the National Anthem. I just find it odd to learn I’m not an ‘authentic Christian’ because I haven’t bowed in front of a statue.

[Natural Law]

"I still put my hand over my heart for the National Anthem."

I believe you are a veteran. The Defense Authorization Act of 2009, signed by "W", allows un-uniformed service-members, military retirees, and veterans to render a hand salute during the hoisting, lowering, or passing of the U.S. flag and during the national anthem.

[Mad Dawg]

I'm not an authentic Christian. I pray daily that the unmerited grace of Christ will more and more purge out the inauthenticity.

And in related news, from the Epistle (late first century, early 2nd, said by the Oxford Dictionary of the Xtian Church) of Clement (2nd or 3rd Pope):

We are not justified by our wisdom, intelligence, piety, or by any action of ours, however holy, but by faith, the one means by which God has justified men from the beginning.

It was nice to come upon that it today's morning prayers.