Three words:
"Get over it".
If y'all fetishists didn't invest the power in that fetish, the flag burners would gain nothing from burning it.
Or didn't y'all ever think of that?
"Get over it" Really? Rather bold of you to tell me to "get over it"... I spent some time in the Military, Reveille and Retreat became my favorite parts of the Day... The hoisting and lowering of the Flag is a Honored tradition in the Military...
You are correct about one thing... I never even considered "getting over it"...
Perhaps the military should put more energy into militarying and less into fetishism. Obviously not everybody understands it.
Perhaps pro sports should put more energy into sports for the same reason.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth (Exodus 20)
FYI, Exodus 20 means you are not to worship said graven image. Flag waving is not fetishism.
No, it isn't and neither is strawmanning. Yes, I noticed your desperation shift to "waving". You thought I wouldn't notice?
But claiming to die for a thing, and claiming to go around busting kneecaps with baseball bats when that thing is blasphemed, and when every point you have about the thing is based on pure emotion --- yes indeed, that is big-time worship of a graven image. An idol. A fetish. Whatever you call it, same thing. An inanimate object.