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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Scroll back fifty-seven years....

Project Reason recently sponsored a video contest to promote critical thinking. The winning entry was "The Values We All Stand For."
    Among other things, it asks,
What if, when our Pledge of Allegiance was revised in 1953, "one nation" had become, not "one nation, under God," but "one straight nation" or "one white nation"?
But "Just a Book," the third-place winner, with its theatrical emphasis, is my personal favorite. I suspect that it placed third partly because of the theatricality, which might have struck the voters as somewhat antithetical to critical thinking.
    Pause if necessary to check out the titles of the books people stand up to read to drown out the Bible zealot.

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