How about this for the "Under God" in the pledge?

Question

Christian-under God
Muslim-Under Allah
Polytheistic religions-under Gods
goddess worship-under the Goddess
buddists-under Budda
Atheists-Under science
etc- under what your worship

Lets have it so you can put what ever you believe not just "Under God". But whatever you chose when you say it.

I think this is the most peaceful thing you could do

you could easily do this instead of endlessly bickering over it

so it makes people happier if they can pray to what ever they believe

if you want to omit it entirely when you say it you can it is up to the person to say what they want

well they can teach it with out that in Under anything in it and tell you tat you can substitute what ever you want

Answer 1

That is the PERFECT idea! But i am still going with UNDER GOD!

Answer 2

That's a good idea. If I actually believed in pledging my allegiance to a symbol, I would say "under science."

Oh, and bballchick92: take a history lesson. Our country was not founded on "God;" our founding fathers worked hard to keep religion out of the government. the "under God" line was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the early 1950s, during America's paranoia about "godless" Communism.

Answer 3

As a Christian Im not offended by "God" however I dont like the claim being made by a country who is not under God. This makes the other countries think Christians act like the US does.

Answer 4

You have the right to not say the pledge. Don't ruin it for the vast majority of Americans who are Christian and our Jewish brothers and sisters (and the Muslims for that matter, since Allah is Arabic for God).

Pennsylvania is the only state where it was not illegal at one point or another of U.S. History to be Catholic. In every other state, priests would be killed. They don't teach you that in your little history classes, do they? And you're complaining about 2 little words in our nation's pledge? Get over it! Nobody's forcing you to do or say anything, and your not being oppressed, so stop complaining. It's called tough love.

Answer 5

"Under God" was added only recently during the Cold War. The whole issue is nonsense. We could say "higher power" instead, but the pledge is about patriotism -- not religion. I personally preferred it before "under God" was added.

Answer 6

I know what you mean and it probably would make things a little more peaceful
but "Under God" was put in the pledge because this country was founded on God
and I PRAY that that will never change

Answer 7

Like others have already said, Christianity was added to our pledge, and money, in the Eisenhower era. We got along just fine without it before.

Nowadays it's really "under surveillance" anyway. If your government isn't abusing individual rights, then bipartisan propaganda / indoctrination like pledge of allegiance is itself unnecessary to begin with. But the vast majority of humans are sheep and/or meddlers, and regard symbolism higher than substance. (The pledge itself is a 19th century contrivance.)

For all the hypo-christian laments about proselytizing not being oppression, if you had any true sense of right and wrong you'd know you don't have to be physically touching someone to be forcing them to go along with something.

I'm also not that impressed by deities who (by definition of their human followers at least) seem to need government endorsement, evangelism, written words, human middlemen, and the like. If God's law is higher than man's law, then it's not necessary to write it into man's law, as we will be handled by the deity himself (at least that what I thought monotheists all claimed, when not talking out of both sides of their mouths about the powers of deities). Man's law merely needs to consist of restraining nosey people (often monotheists) from interfering in the lives of the rest of us, whether directly or indirectly.

As for messing it up for the "majority", in case you didn't realize, this place was founded as a representative republic, not a direct democracy, in the attempt to fetter tyrrany OF the majority over any minority. Being in a majority (or any other group) doesn't grant you additional rights.

Elect Libertarians and reduce government back to its proper bounds, so that a second revolution by true patriots won't be necessary.

"The ideal government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone-one which barely escapes being no government at all." -- H.L. Mencken

Answer 8

Sounds reasonable, but the problem is that the powers that be don't want people to cooperate through freedom of choice, they want us all follow one way and that is their way. One world government is where this planet is headed and nothing can be done to stop it, besides the end of the world.

Answer 9

under God was not in the original pledge , it was added in the 50's

Answer 10

Why don't we just REMOVE it, since it was artificially inserted in the pledge to begin with? Recite after me: "One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Not only does it make more sense, but the cadence is dramatically improved.

Answer 11

When I was little I thought it was "under guard" anyway...
My friends and I would giggle when we inserted "and injustice for all" because even as kids we were pretty jaded by America's hypocrisies.