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To: Cogito who wrote (168008)	8/6/2011 4:11:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543985

No one is bristling about the FDR statement because he's not around to say anything like that today. Is it an improvement that liberals are hostile to people praying in public now, when they didn't used to be?

To: Cogito who wrote (168008)	8/6/2011 7:51:06 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543985

i still think the smug assumption that everyone is fighting for religion is stupid and wrong- no matter what time period it gets made in. My dad, an atheist, was fighting in the South Pacific and he sure wasn't fighting for "our religion." He was fighting because he didn't like Hitler, and he thought the bombing of Pearl Harbor was wrong- and he was a teen, and all his friends were signing up. Religion had zero to do with it. FDR screwed the pooch with that speech. It used to be common for white men to call grown Southern men "boys"- but that didn't make right. The historical nature of some speeches may make the defects common to the time, but they don't rehabilitate them.