A friend of mine has a Quote of the Day post. Interesting offering for today:

"Three weeks after I first moved to the United States with my family, and one week into our American public school adventures, my youngest daughter asked me, 'Mummy, did you know that we pray to the flag every morning at school?'

"Any discussion of an American 'civil religion' needs to take account not only of history and of ideology, but of the religious rituals that surround our secular cult. Walk into many public elementary schools in America a few minutes after the opening bell, and you will know: we already have an established religion in this country, and its graven image is the flag. Our youngest child recognized it right away."

-- Rev. Rosalind C. Hughes, "What American Flag-Worship Looks Like To A New Citizen", 2017-07-12

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