Watching the inauguration speech

[andrewducker]

Julie: Almost makes you want to be American.
...
Julie: That was brilliant.  Shall we move to America for the next eight years?

Comments

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

http://deacbench.blogspot.com/2009/01/rick-warrens-inaugural-prayer.html

Separation of church and state my arse.

[andrewducker]

If you expect me to be surprised that there was mention of God at the signing in of the new US president then.... well, I'm just not :->

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

It's not the mention of his god, it's this sentence that really annoys the heck out of me "everything we see and everything we can’t see exists because of you alone. It all comes from you, it all belongs to you. It all exists for your glory."

This belittles every human act and effort, transforming all human labour into insignificance. It's hugely insulting to the hard work of a country of people. The fact that this represents any proportion of the mentality of people in the US should at least make you think twice about moving there and where you'd live if you did :)

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely.

I'd want to move to one of the less crazy bits.

Like Canada.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, North America?

Why didn't you say so :)