With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" Don't want to start a fire storm, just musing.
2007-02-12 15:40:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
we should not take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. That is what is wrong with our country we don't put God first.
2007-02-12 15:44:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 8⤋
So you are saying that the deistic symbolic god of the pledge (or whatever the Supreme Court said it was so it could stay in the pledge) is petty? That's something a spoiled small child would do.
2007-02-12 15:45:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The wording of one nation's pledge of allegiance could have no possible effect whatsoever upon such natural disasters.
The pledge of a nation that purports to cherish religious freedom and whose citizens come from a multitude of backgrounds should not acknowledge a monotheistic God to the exclusion of polytheism, atheism, pantheism, and all other religious and philosophical notions. The pre-1954 pledge was better.
2007-02-12 15:43:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
There's no reason to have "Under God" in the Pledge. It's not a matter of "taking God out of" the Pledge of Allegiance. It's a matter of restoring the Pledge to what it was originally. Adding "Under God" to the Pledge only serves to divide this country. We create our own storms, and for little reason.
2007-02-12 15:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by nondescript 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
You do realize that "God" wasn't always in the pledge of allegiance? That, that's a relatively new thing?
2007-02-12 15:46:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
We are not pledging allegiance to god. We are pledging allegiance to our great nation. Muslims, buddhists, catholics, atheists, wiccans, pagans, etc... How egotistical is it for us to continue to leave god in the pledge to a country that promised religious freedom and tolerance for all. Kind of makes us hypocrites huh? Pledge your allegiance to god in church. Leave him out of my great nations pledge. All he has done is create bigotry, hatred, and war.
2007-02-12 15:45:43 · answer #6 · answered by John D 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, it seems like the way the U.S. is going is giving God's name a bad rap. If I were God, I demand it be take out or I'd turn a few congressmen into pillars of salt just to make a point.
2007-02-12 16:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
you do realize that god was put into the pledge durring the cold war to seperate US from the GODLESS communist's right?
and if your great god is so harsh that he would condemn an entire country of people because they do not recognize him in their legal documents and government, then is he really a god worth following in the first place.
2007-02-12 15:47:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it makes a crap if you take him out or not it isn't going to change the natural conditions you mention anyway. Natural disasters are caused by nature not by any pledge or God.
2007-02-12 15:45:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, since it was jammed INTO the pledge of allegience in the 50s, and things have gone steadily downhill from there, I say we have nothing to lose.
2007-02-12 15:43:28 · answer #10 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 10⤊ 2⤋
The reference to god was added during the Eisenhower administration. As a writer I prefer the original text.
2007-02-12 15:43:59 · answer #11 · answered by actionfolksinger 2 · 5⤊ 2⤋