Flag Waving

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Jul 2 17:42:50 PDT 2002


On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Most apartment bldgs in nonpoor neighborhoods of Manhattan have flags
> displayed - a real shocker, in this hotbed of secular humanism.

But nationalism was the original secular humanism, no? And in its origins it was consciously meant to be a substitute religion -- to replace god with society, and the the worship of god with the worship of the nation.

Michael



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