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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I'm just not a flag person. Perhaps it's my Jewish upbringing. But we were indoctrinated as children to never worship "things." I don't pay respects to flags, or any other inanimate object. I don't kneel to pray, I didn't kneel when I got married, we don't kneel in synagogue except when we invoke the Lord's name in a very specific invocation. And we don't worship or revere things.
I love my country. The flag, I'm just ambivalent about. Seeing tons of flags flying doesn't stir me to patriotism, and seeing them missing doesn't make me feel any less love for the USA. I don't need a flag of ANY kind to love America.
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I have the same upbringing and I see no one here "worshiping" the flag. Respecting it? Yes. Honoring it? Most certainly...
Taking pride in it? Most definitely...
Just as I take pride in this flag...
