The constitution was written with alot of the same points as the Bible. Why do people freak out when God is mentioned in something?
2006-11-08 16:33:46 · 16 answers · asked by Luekas 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah I have heard of "the separation of church and state" but there is also a little something called "freedom of speech" and "freedom of religion". Maybe you have heard of it. If you don't like the "under God" part then simply don't say it. It shouldn't be taken out completly just because some people get freaked out by anything religious.
2006-11-08 16:40:16 · update #1
Our pledge may not have anything to do with the constitution but it has to do with our country. Wether people want to admit it or not our country was founded and brought up based on Christian values.
2006-11-08 16:42:38 · update #2
i don't know why people get so up in the air about the words, heck, God is on our money; are you going to throw it away and not spend it?
2006-11-08 16:54:48 · answer #1 · answered by Texas T 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The granddaughter of the writer of the pledge sad that he would be spinning in his grave if he knew what people had done to his pledge. "under God" was not originally in there. If 99% of the text of the Constitution was taken word for word from the bible, It still explicitly says that Church and State must be separate. (Actually if 99% of the constitution was taken from the bible, we'd be a Christian version of Iran.) I have the right to not be confronted with the fact that I am not a Christian every day in school.
2006-11-09 00:43:39 · answer #2 · answered by incorrigible_misanthrope 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
One nation under God was not a part of the original Pledge and the Pledge has nothing to do with the Constitution.
2006-11-09 00:40:16 · answer #3 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because the phrase was not part of the original pledge of appegence. it was added in the earley 1950's (1952 i think) during the wave of anti-communism that swept over the country.
The phrase is also inaccurate...while Christians, Jews and Muslims all worhsip the SAME god, other religions do not. The phrase implies that there is a preference to the Christian god over other belief systems and that ONLY that deity should be acknowledged and everyone else is wrong.
Personally, I stopped saying the pledge in school after I learned the meaning of all the words in first grade because, even then, I knew my allegiance was NOT to the subject of the pledge.
2006-11-09 00:45:17 · answer #4 · answered by kveldulfgondlir 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The "under God" bit of the pledge wasn't added until the 50s. This is not a Christian nation, not everyone here believes in the same god, therefor it should be taken out and the pledge should be restored to its original form.
2006-11-09 00:36:24 · answer #5 · answered by Girl Wonder 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'll answer the original question, because your "constitution" point has nothing to do with it.
I think that the phrase "under God" should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance because it established a theological and thus a religious viewpoint supported by the government--which is NOT Constitutional.
For a nation to say that it is "under God" it is
1.) presupposing that a god exists
2.) presupposing that that god is singular and
3.) presupposing our relationship to that god. We are "under" him/her/it, which is a belief that excludes those like animists who believe that gods are everywhere and in everything.
For those reasons it is unconstitutional and should be removed.
2006-11-09 00:39:09 · answer #6 · answered by N 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because many, many millions of people see the bible as a work of fiction. Our "constitution was written" with a message of freedom. Freedom from the control and brain washings of religion
Many people do not, with their whole hearts, believe there is a "God". Many more see an un-nameable, indescribable "Force". And still more see a "Godess".
If you can't see this (but maybee you might ; ). Then you are the bad guy, nobody likes a bully who forces their beliefs and standards on others. It's not nice.
2006-11-09 00:47:08 · answer #7 · answered by Pup 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They want to take it out because it's in conflict with "separation of church and state". But it doesn't say the God of the Hebrews, so why the bother. Most people believe in a God somewhere, why not just take this phrase and make it your own. The point is to invoke a higher power to watch over the country we all live in. What's so wrong with that? Nobody is asking anyone to pray to or worship a God they don't believe in.
2006-11-09 00:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by Bri Liz 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have no opinion in the matter but in all honesty the words under God were added in only 50 years ago for political reasons.
Their is no historic reason to keep them in the pledge.
2006-11-09 00:50:11 · answer #9 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because it was a new thing not the traditional pledge and it assumes that everyone believe in god, the republic was founded on religious pluralism, one nation under god is what the founder of the USA fled from. compulsory religion of any sort is anti American
go back to the original pledge reject one nation under god
2006-11-09 00:38:04 · answer #10 · answered by mohamed jihad dirka dirka 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
freedom of religion is awesome...and in you saying that as well you just contridicted yourself...there IS freedom of religion which means that not everyone believes in God and those of us who don't should not have to put up with reference to this God in our pledge. it is not that people freak out...it is that most of the Christians today no longer respect other religions. I respect theirs, why can they not respect mine???
2006-11-09 00:46:10 · answer #11 · answered by trouble in paradise 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋