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Avalux (30,877 posts)This country's national anthem is about WAR.Moving, descriptive lyrics about war.Is it any wonder, since our independence from Britain, that our history is riddled with war, and that in recent times, that's all we seem to be about?Any progress we've made towards cooperation and compassion seems to eventually be undone and negated (even if it takes decades).We say and want the rest of the world to believe we're all about freedom, equality, pursuit of happiness, blah blah blah......It's more like every man for himself, carrying a pistol if possible, taking what he wants.
Star Member hunter (20,298 posts)9. Our national anthem blows chunks.As a kid, my mom was a Jehovah's Witness and me and my siblings would sit out both the pledge and the anthem in school.The Witnesses eventually kicked my mom out of their church because she couldn't stay out of secular politics. Literally kicked her out, bouncers at the Kingdom Hall door. My siblings and I have a really funny story about my mom and a car and a structure but I'm not sure what the statute of limitations is.Soon after we were Quakers who have similar pacifist anti-oath-taking beliefs, but a much higher tolerance for people like my mom who always say what they think.Myself, I've reverted to my ancestral left wing social justice Catholicism, but I'm still a heretic. It's a family tradition.
Avalux (30,877 posts)This country's national anthem is about WAR.Moving, descriptive lyrics about war.Is it any wonder, since our independence from Britain, that our history is riddled with war, and that in recent times, that's all we seem to be about?Any progress we've made towards cooperation and compassion seems to eventually be undone and negated (even if it takes decades).
The Star-Spangled Banner is about bravery, resilience, and commitment. It's not about war. Anyone that thinks it is about war has either never heard it or is very, very stupid.
I don't see Mr. "Social Justice" proposing his own version of a National Anthem.