I have no vested interest in this discussion, but I will bite on the bait. I will add a disclaimer that I see nothing wrong with the original log asking God to bless America before I begin playing devil’s advocate.
First, there is another involved party here whose side is not being told. I am completely neutral in this and something tells me the writing in caps came at the end rather than the beginning of the chain of communication. While the Constitution is a great document and does protect my right to believe in God, it also protects another person’s right to not believe. Without any context to the discussion, I have no idea at what point things obviously devolved. I for one would be greatly pressed before I would discuss my personal beliefs in depth with a complete stranger. The nature of geocaching’s online community does break down some barriers between strangers, but not to what I would consider that level of familiarity.
Sometimes people say things in logs that make me roll my eyes, but I have yet to feel the need to post a reply on a geocache page that is public domain. In this case someone did feel pressed enough. Why, I have no idea, but they have their reasons. Without hearing from them, I feel this is taking a (mostly) private argument to a wider audience.
If the other involved party has nothing to say on the subject they must feel that it is private and that’s the way it should remain.
This post isn’t directed at anyone, so please: no flaming projectiles. I simply saw a very one-sided discussion.
