Reply #272: But the erosion of liberty is a slow process

[Goblinmonger]

It happens with crosses on the highway. It happens with "under God" jammed into the pledge. It happens with "In God We Trust" slapped on all of our currency. If Bush stood up and declared us a theocracy and replaced the Constitution with the Bible, nobody would stand for that. But when it happens slowly, nobody gets it. It is the duty of those that get it to stop it. It is the old boiling frog analogy. Drop a frog in a pot of boiling water and he will hop out. Put a frog in a pot of cold water and bring it to boiling, and he will stay in it until he dies. Every one of these things that are "not worth fighting" just add more and more ammunition to the rifles of the fundies. When we say there is a wall between church and state, they just point to the pledge, the currency, the crosses on the road and say "Shut up you goddless heathen, this is a christian nation." And then they lie about our founding fathers basing our country on christianity. When you tell me that our FF were diests, they say it can't be because look at all the god stuff all over the place. It has to stop. You'll be pragmatic until the pot of water is boiling.