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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Im not talking for the US people here Missies,
I looked up my home countries, "national symbols" the UK has the oak as its national tree, the national anthem, even a national bird and animal(wren and lion)
Canada has the maple leaf, hockey(sport) beaver is the national animal, and each province has different symbols, Ontario where I live now, has a flower, bird, etc...
I peeked at your profile and saw that you are from germany?
Again, the national anthem, flag, tree(which is the oak) coat of arms...not as many as other places, but i didnt look deep
I see it as a notably different way of showing "pride" that makes your state/country different to other regions, nations or states...
just my two cents:)

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ORIGINAL: ExiledTyrant

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Im not talking for the US people here Missies,
I looked up my home countries, "national symbols" the UK has the oak as its national tree, the national anthem, even a national bird and animal(wren and lion)
Canada has the maple leaf, hockey(sport) beaver is the national animal, and each province has different symbols, Ontario where I live now, has a flower, bird, etc...
I peeked at your profile and saw that you are from germany?
Again, the national anthem, flag, tree(which is the oak) coat of arms...not as many as other places, but i didnt look deep
I see it as a notably different way of showing "pride" that makes your state/country different to other regions, nations or states...
just my two cents:)

The beaver is the national animal... fuck... I'm moving to Canada.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

Don't forget, Tyrant...one of the Canadian delicacies es jellies beaver tail ( tongue firmly in cheek)

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ORIGINAL: missiesfavourite

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

Im not talking for the US people here Missies,
I looked up my home countries, "national symbols" the UK has the oak as its national tree, the national anthem, even a national bird and animal(wren and lion)
Canada has the maple leaf, hockey(sport) beaver is the national animal, and each province has different symbols, Ontario where I live now, has a flower, bird, etc...
I peeked at your profile and saw that you are from germany?
Again, the national anthem, flag, tree(which is the oak) coat of arms...not as many as other places, but i didnt look deep
I see it as a notably different way of showing "pride" that makes your state/country different to other regions, nations or states...
just my two cents:)

that's why I wondered about purpose(s) ... flags and anthems are widespread, and coats of arms probably served some purpose once if only as on a signpost for the illiterate or a sign on the shield in medieval battle whose arm or head you are about to chop off ...

but I still can hardly see any sense in a state book, or (pardon me Desideriscudi - a state sausage - does it mean that a state patriot has to eat only that one instead of others?) ... a state tree (I don't think the oak has any offical status here - lots of poems about deutsche eiche, deutscher wald for sure though - and not to forget as an old fashioned pub name) ... and most of these other things mentioned

but if politicians spend their time and energy (and tax money paying for all that) on making these things official, and state laws and all that - there should be some good reasons for that, and I 'd really like to know them

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ORIGINAL: MercTech

Some seem to have missed the fine print.

The Tennessee legislature chose to honor a famous Tennessean, Andrew Jackson, by making his personal bible the Tennessee State Book.

It is just a bit of "feel good" legislation that many state governing bodies occasionally indulge in. And often, it makes no sense at all to someone tho didn't grown up with that state's history and culture. We are talking about the time of Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, "Old Hickory" Jackson and the Creek rebellion.

Whether it stands a legal test or not; it is just feel-good tripe that gets the originators of the bill in good graces with the extremely religious constituents.

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ORIGINAL: joether

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: joether
The Holy Bible!

Even though it violates the state and federal laws on the 'separation of Church and State', Tennessee Republicans pushed to make the Holy Bible the official book for the state. Knowing that they would be violating the law, these people voted on the bill anyways. After all, whose going to prosecute them? The Republican Party in the state?

What should happen to those who knowingly violate the law, do it for their political/religious reasons?

Isn't the Bible a book?
Doesn't it count as literature?
Hasn't it influenced several societies?
Where did they say that anyone had to accept it as "gospel"?

Well the thread title was a lie, why would you expect anything else he posted to be any different. And according to this link it wasn't even a close vote.

Tennessee’s House of Representatives will not make the Holy Bible the official state book after lawmakers defeated the proposal 22-9 on Wednesday, according to The Tennessean newspaper.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/tennessee-house-votes-make-bible-official-state-book

Calling me a lair?

Everything I stated in the OP was true.....ASSHOLE!

That is what you usually are......

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: MercTech

Some seem to have missed the fine print.

The Tennessee legislature chose to honor a famous Tennessean, Andrew Jackson, by making his personal bible the Tennessee State Book.

It is just a bit of "feel good" legislation that many state governing bodies occasionally indulge in. And often, it makes no sense at all to someone tho didn't grown up with that state's history and culture. We are talking about the time of Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, "Old Hickory" Jackson and the Creek rebellion.

Whether it stands a legal test or not; it is just feel-good tripe that gets the originators of the bill in good graces with the extremely religious constituents.

Wait. . . it is a specific Bible? Not just "Bible in general"?

This seems to make it even less of something to really care much about.

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ORIGINAL: missiesfavourite
that's why I wondered about purpose(s) ... flags and anthems are widespread, and coats of arms probably served some purpose once if only as on a signpost for the illiterate or a sign on the shield in medieval battle whose arm or head you are about to chop off ...
but I still can hardly see any sense in a state book, or (pardon me Desideriscudi - a state sausage - does it mean that a state patriot has to eat only that one instead of others?) ... a state tree (I don't think the oak has any offical status here - lots of poems about deutsche eiche, deutscher wald for sure though - and not to forget as an old fashioned pub name) ... and most of these other things mentioned
but if politicians spend their time and energy (and tax money paying for all that) on making these things official, and state laws and all that - there should be some good reasons for that, and I 'd really like to know them

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