Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thought this was interesting: In a message dated 6/30/2002 8:58:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > The trouble with both the traditional Pledge of Allegiance and the Ninth > Circuit's decision is that either way, school kids don't get to think about > what they believe. They just recite -- not really "by heart," but by rote. > Or > they don't recite at all. The heart never gets into it. > > Imagine this: Each kid gets to choose the preposition before "God" that she > or he says: One Nation ""under" God, "inside" God, "surrounding" God, > "without" God, "exploring" God, "surrendering to" God, "multiplying" God, > "wrestling" God, "awaiting" God, and so on. And on. And on. > > Everyone would have to think. And feel. Might come out different on > different > days. > > With this polyphonic Pledge, the kids would not only get to think but would > hear each other thinking. They would make real what the Pledge says: "With > Liberty and justice for all." > > And maybe there would emerge a deeper religious experience as well. > > Shalom, > Arthur > > P. S. -- I don't mean to lose sight of the history that the Jehovah's > Witnesses won a crucial case that the Pledge and the Flag Salute as a whole > can't be required in any case. In their view, the flag is an idol. What an > idea! > > > -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- Return-Path: <owner-mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx> Received: from rly-xd04.mx.aol.com (rly-xd04.mail.aol.com [172.20.105.169]) by air-xd01.mail.aol.com (v86_r1.15) with ESMTP id MAILINXD14-0630235815; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:58:15 -0400 Received: from shamash.org (shamash.org [207.244.122.42]) by rly-xd04.mx.aol.com (v86_r1.15) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXD410-0630235800; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:58:00 -0400 Received: (qmail 24243 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2002 04:00:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shamash.org) (127.0.0.1) by shamash.org with SMTP; 1 Jul 2002 04:00:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 00:00:29 EDT Sender: owner-mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx Reply-To: mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx From: National Havurah Committee Mailing List <mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: National Havurah Committee Mailing List <mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: MAIL-HAVURAH digest 879 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN Message-ID: <200206302358.10XpCKAa13906@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MAIL-HAVURAH Digest 879 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) The Polyphonic Pledge of Allegiance by Awaskow@xxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Awaskow@xxxxxxx To: National Havurah Committee Mailing List <mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [MAIL-HAVURAH:4141] The Polyphonic Pledge of Allegiance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:01:20 EDT The trouble with both the traditional Pledge of Allegiance and the Ninth Circuit's decision is that either way, school kids don't get to think about what they believe. They just recite -- not really "by heart," but by rote. Or they don't recite at all. The heart never gets into it. Imagine this: Each kid gets to choose the preposition before "God" that she or he says: One Nation ""under" God, "inside" God, "surrounding" God, "without" God, "exploring" God, "surrendering to" God, "multiplying" God, "wrestling" God, "awaiting" God, and so on. And on. And on. Everyone would have to think. And feel. Might come out different on different days. With this polyphonic Pledge, the kids would not only get to think but would hear each other thinking. They would make real what the Pledge says: "With Liberty and justice for all." And maybe there would emerge a deeper religious experience as well. Shalom, Arthur P. S. -- I don't mean to lose sight of the history that the Jehovah's Witnesses won a crucial case that the Pledge and the Flag Salute as a whole can't be required in any case. In their view, the flag is an idol. What an idea! _______________________________ These comments flow from the work of The Shalom Center <www.shalomctr.com>, a North American network committed to draw on Jewish wisdom, old and new, in order to pursue peace, justice, and the healing of the earth. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ End of MAIL-HAVURAH Digest 879 ****************************** ---------------------- mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org A service of Hebrew College, offering online courses and an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/ ---------------------- mail-havurah@xxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------=