An excerpt from Evangelical Outpost's Rousseau’s Allies:Civil Religion and the Pledge of Allegiance...
Yesterday a federal judge in California declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional...Our nation has restricted such sentiments of “ceremonial deism” to the most unobtrusive areas, allowing “In God We Trust” to be printed on our coins and the phrase “under God” to slip in our Pledge of Allegiance (which, curiously, isn’t a pledge of “allegiance” to God but to a flag). We allow recognition for a “Divinity, possessed of foresight and providence” but what we don’t allow is the recognition of the Christian God. And that is what should give Christians pause...That is not to say that we can’t say the Pledge and think of the one true God. But we should keep in mind that this fight isn’t our fight and the “god” of America’s civil religion is not the God who died on the Cross.
Writing Prompt: Create a character who is a minister and a lawyer, who agrees with Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost, and who must defend the atheist who brought this case before your own state's court. Could his congregation and family understand his position? Could Christ prevail through the outcome? If you write this story, or at least an outline, shoot it to vidae at writing dot com.
Whoah! Deep POV.
Writing to see what the end's gon' be,
Dee
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