Reply #102: Check out Docherty's original sermon... [View All]

[hunter]

1950's anti-communist rantings and historical fictions at their finest:

http://www.izpics.com/hunter/docherty.html (text)

http://www.nyapc.org/congregation/Sermon_Archives/?month=1954-02 (pdf)

It is a fight for the freedom of the human personality. It is not simply man’s inhumanity to man. It is Armageddon, a battle of the gods. It is the view of man as it comes down to from Judaio-Christian civilization in mortal combat against modern, secularized, godless humanity.

The pledge of allegiance seems to me to commit this theological implication that is fundamental to the American way of life. It should be “One nation, indivisible, under God.” Once “under God, “ then we can define what we mean by “liberty and justice for all’” To omit the words “under God” in the pledge of allegiance is to omit the definitive character of the American way of life.

What makes us different from those Godless Communists? God of course. "It is Armageddon, a battle of the gods!"

Damn, what a spew of toxic gas.

Thomas Jefferson or any number of the founding fathers would have thrown this preacher out on his ass. They built the wall between church and state to keep out the likes of Rev. Docherty.