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Monday, 2007 January 1 10:16 PM MST — Arvada, Colorado UNITED STATES

I don't pretend to be patriotic. I happen to love all people regardless of where they were born or where they call home. It's this beautiful thing that I call multiculturalism. Apparently, we are the enemy. We're teaching a “politically correct lie”. Our actions are “an attack on America's traditional Christian culture”. Wow! I never knew that loving others like Christ told us would destroy Christianity.

Quote to ponder: “E Pluribus Unum” or “Out of many, one” — Motto of the United States of America

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Amazed

Jasmine B. wrote on Tuesday, 2007 January 2 10:41 AM MST:

I am utterly amazed at the complex nature of your site- it may not even be complex. It may be my technological retardation that causes me to awe over the amazingness of it.

Patriotism

Ansen B. wrote on Wednesday, 2007 January 3 10:32 AM MST:

Dan, you continue to misconstrue what it means to be patriotic. "I don't pretend to be patriotic. I happen to love all people..." You imply that people with patriotism do not love all people, and I take great offense to that assumption. I am very patriotic. I also love all people regardless of where they were born or where they call home. Patriotism and multiculturalism do not have to be opposites, yet this is what you continually make them out to be. I don't know who told you that loving others is an attack on traditional Christian culture, but I certainly have never implied such a thing. I think all people and nations all over the world are created equal and deserve an equal amount of respect and dignity and love. That is why I find it pitiful that you do not give respect to or have love for your very own country. Without the United States, you wouldn't have the opportunities to receive the education on the rest of the world like you have. Without the United States, you may not have the right to say that you weren't patriotic. The US is pretty screwed up, just like the rest of the world. But I'm proud to be an American because of the ideals we stand for: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I say good for you in that you don't automatically slip into deep ethnocentrism like some Americans (and some foreigners). But I say shame on you in the sense that though you profess respect and love you cannot even dole it out for the very country that gave you the right to speak up.

Here's what I'm talking about.

Daniel W. wrote on Wednesday, 2007 January 3 12:13 PM MST:

Sorry, I should have provided context.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/bb000307.htm

That helps..

Ansen B. wrote on Wednesday, 2007 January 3 3:54 PM MST:

That does help provide some background to what you were referring to. I scanned that article, and it looks pretty ridiculous to me. I don't buy in to what they're saying on there at all. At the same time though...I would be careful with your use of the term patriotic...as I think often the term patriotism is used incorrectly, when people mean the word nationalism. I'd be interested to see what you think of what I wrote on my blog on this issue.

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