Hi, Steve...

SA>Mulling over Daryl Stout to STEVE ASHER 18 Sep 2005

  You enjoy mulling, don't you?? 

SA>I just looked up the Pledge of Allegiance. I don't see anything
  >in it that would offend a reasonable person. "God Save The Queen"
  >was Australia's National Anthem, until it was changed to "Advance
  >Australia Fair" a couple of decades ago. Most nations have anthems
  >& tunes & the like, and there is no harm in showing our pride in
  >our nations, as I think most of us love our respective countries
  >with their strengths & faults. There is always the danger that
  >a leader or party will use that patriotism for evil, as has
  >happened.

  I'm surprised they haven't thrown a fit at The Star Spangled Banner
(the U.S. National Anthem)...the last verse has "Praise the Power that
hath Made, and Preserved us a Nation." -- and later in that verse "And,
this be our motto...In God Is Our Trust".

SA>Mary is seen as the "Mediatrix of all graces", and there is strong
  >pressure to declare her as "Co-redemptrix", when there is only
  >one mediator between God and man... Jesus Christ.

  I understand that the current Pope is one of these as well. One of the
tracts done by Jack T. Chick (www.chick.com) is called "Why Is Mary
Crying??".

  >to mean. Funnily enough, I reject the whole concept, regardless of
  >what spin might be put on the words.

  Anything done by man is inherently flawed...physically, or otherwise.

Daryl

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