================================================ Subject: Re: Has the band posted before? From: "Tara" To: Date: Wed 19 Sep 2001 14:31:54 -0400 ================================================ If you can call it a religion... I personally think it's closer to a cult than a religion... Jehovah's Witness. *shudder* Tara ----- Original Message ----- From: To: ; Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Has the band posted before? > I went to several different private "Christian" schools, and we always said > the pledge to the American flag. Am I being too nosy if I ask what religion > you were raised in? > > Jen > > In a message dated 9/19/2001 1:45:45 AM Central America Standard Tim, > tknapp@TUCKER-USA.COM writes: > > << As far as religion and the flag... as a child, I wasn't allowed to say the > Pledge of Allegiance in class when everyone else did, because it was against > the religion my family followed. Pledging allegiance to a flag was > considered idolatry, and a sin. Something about how people should worship > ONLY God, nothing and no one else, including the flag and the country... > that everything else is secondary... the whole religion is basically a > complete misinterpretation of just about everything, imo. (Do you know how > weird it makes a kid feel to be the ONLY student who had to stay seated and > silent during the Pledge and the singing of "My Country Tis of Thee" in the > first grade? When I moved back in the 8th grade, everyone remembered me as > "the girl who couldn't say the Pledge of Allegiance"). > Tara >> To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp