Esemplastic thermoplastic » religion vs. state http://drzubkov.com chemists are reactive scientists Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:24:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 obligatory post about Obama’s inauguration http://drzubkov.com/2009/01/obama-inauguration/ http://drzubkov.com/2009/01/obama-inauguration/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:13:59 +0000 cubbi http://drzubkov.com/?p=598 I didn’t care to watch it, knowing that it will have priests in it (how ridiculous is that?), that Obama is president effective 12:00 noon regardless of what transcribes at the ceremony (although too bad I missed the “president to the United States faithfully” mess-up), and that it will have the stupid “So help me God”, which, by the way, was never used by U.S. presidents until well into the 20th century, with the single exception of Chester Arthur; I fully support the lawsuit that attempted to bar Roberts from instructing the president to say that (naturally, injunction denied for no standing)

I liked this blog on the subject, and, in particular, this australian’s comment:
“It seems that american political life has a parasite called overt christian god talk and another called sickening patriotism and it seems to be the price that all political figures no matter how progressive have to pay.”

Crossposted from Livejournal

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