Comments on: First patriotism, now God soaked patriotism? http://bligbi.com/2008/02/12/first-patriotism-now-god-soaked-patriotism/ The ramblings of a non-apologetic militant atheist mom doing time in the lonestar state on atheism, religion, feminism, politics and current events. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:56:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Karen http://bligbi.com/2008/02/12/first-patriotism-now-god-soaked-patriotism/#comment-2989 Karen Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:39:43 +0000 http://bligbi.com/2008/02/12/first-patriotism-now-god-soaked-patriotism/#comment-2989 If you're right (as I suspect), and that is the song they're playing in school, then you can use it as both a gentle lesson in patriotism and a gentle introduction to the undeniable fact that the outspoken godful are all around us. One can staunchly support the people serving in our armed forces (Kindergarten is too young to understand the many caveats to that statement) while believing that the war shouldn't have been started in the first place, and/or believing that it shouldn't be continuing. Also, I can't imagine that Kindergarten is too early to start letting your daughter know that many people have superstitious beliefs, and that it is best to just ignore them. Not every godfree person might agree with that statement, but in the relatively vicious world of K-12, it might just be the best sort of coping strategy. If you’re right (as I suspect), and that is the song they’re playing in school, then you can use it as both a gentle lesson in patriotism and a gentle introduction to the undeniable fact that the outspoken godful are all around us.

One can staunchly support the people serving in our armed forces (Kindergarten is too young to understand the many caveats to that statement) while believing that the war shouldn’t have been started in the first place, and/or believing that it shouldn’t be continuing.

Also, I can’t imagine that Kindergarten is too early to start letting your daughter know that many people have superstitious beliefs, and that it is best to just ignore them. Not every godfree person might agree with that statement, but in the relatively vicious world of K-12, it might just be the best sort of coping strategy.

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