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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
What a stupid fricken waste of time, couldn't they go and feed the hungry or study or something.
I lump these people into the same class of lunatics that that want to outlaw the phrase Merry Christmas, and change the name Halloween to Black and White Day.
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I have to agree with the Captain on this one...I don't see this as an issued that HAD to be addressed ASAP. The people who want to ban people from saying "Merry Christmas" drive me nuts...I said it to a woman once a couple of years ago and she glared at me (actually gave me a disguted look!) and snapped, "Happy Holidays!" in the rudest way I've ever heard those words uttered.
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
If you hear God in a sentence does it REALLY offend you? REALLY?
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I don't get this either...yes, I believe in God, but does it offend me when someone else refers to the God they worship? No, it doesn't. I imagine if I didn't believe in God that if I heard the term "God" in a speech I would just shrug it off, I really don't understand why it so offensive to so many people.
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Originally Posted by evman150
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Jennifer Harris: When I was growing up in Toronto, there was no reference to God in O Canada.
The original set of English lyrics, by R. S. Weir, makes no such mention in its opening verse, and this was the version sung in my school, at hockey games, etc. Even the old Anglican hymn book, which includes our national anthem, made no mention of God in the popular first verse. Where we now sing "God keep our land glorious and free," we once sang "O Canada, glorious and free."
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This is the first time I've heard this. I love our national anthem and I REALLY hope they're not planning on changing it to take God out of it. One thing I know has changed is when I was in elementary school, at the beginning of an assembly we would sing O Canada and salute the flag...and at the end of the assembly we would sing God Save the Queen. Not sure when that changed, but I know we don't do that anymore.