re: Apparently CNN thinks the national anthem is like violence or porn

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Who watches CNN

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Spidey switches back and forth from CNN to MSNBC - he wants unbiased news coverage.

Without some group think no progress.

You know like math, history, public education and yes patriotism.

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, which in turn should not be taken as important either.

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You don't have to be a zealot or a idiot to consider it "important'.

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You don't have to be a zealot or a idiot to consider it "important'.

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but it helps to be a zealot or idiot to be patriotic or religious. I'm an atheist and don't care for this country's policies that hurt foreigners. So I reject most aspects of patriotism and find organized religion to be generally ethnocentric. Both patriotism and religion are largely forces of evil in current context.

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and don't care for this country's policies that hurt foreigners

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Well we all have are issues living here but where else would you rather live?

And If I lived in Japan or Kenya I would respect their flag, anthem and traditions.

I guess we are just not the same.