One nation, under a rock.
So, I just got wind of this little movement, no doubt instigated by the Christian Right:
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Subject: DON’T BUY PEPSI IN THE NEW CAN!
Don’t buy Pepsi in the new can. Pepsi has a new “patriotic” can
coming out with pictures of the Empire State Building, and the
Pledge of Allegiance on them.
However, Pepsi left out two little words on the pledge,
“Under God.”
Pepsi said they didn’t want to offend anyone.
In that case, we don’t
want to offend anyone at the Pepsi corporate office, either!
So if we don’t buy any Pepsi product, they will not be offended
when they don’t receive our money that has the words
“In God We Trust” on it.
HOW FAST CAN YOU FORWARD THIS ONE?
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Well, I don’t know how fast I can forward it, but I sure as hell know how fast I can delete it! Jesus, this stuff really bothers me. Why do these people think that they can shove their definition of a deity down the rest of the country’s throat? I’m agnostic and this offends me. But of course, as a non-Christian in Bush’s America, my feelings don’t really matter.
This must somehow be related to Christians wanting stores to bring back “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays” (despite the fact that most Christmas traditions have Pagan origins). Why can’t they see how their narrow-mindedness is part of a much larger problem? The way I see it, without religion, the world would be a much better place. Take the Iraq quagmire, for example. A lot of it seems to be nothing but theological one-upmanship: “My God is bigger than your Allah.” It’s stupid and unreasonable on both sides, if you ask me. And the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, too. I know it’s not that straight forward and simple, but….
You know what else really bugs me? People asking me to “pray”. I don’t pray. I don’t believe in the Christian god. And it offends me that people assume that just because I’m an American, too, that I hold the same religious beliefs. I don’t and probably never will. You can ask me to send good Karma, or “Keep me in your thoughts”, but the word “pray” has such strong religious rather than spiritual connotations. Spirituality I can handle. Religion I can’t.