2007-03-18 09:16:59 · 16 answers · asked by wendell t 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Under GOD and leave it alone, don't like it tough s**t.
Have any other countries had to change any of their historical pledges?
2007-03-18 10:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by jason s 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think it has it's place to mean whatever you want it to mean in whatever context makes the most sense. If I say the pledge of allegiance and decide that I don't want to include "under God", nobody can do anything about it.
As for schoolchildren saying it every morning, I compare it to religious prayers that my friend and I had to say when we were young. He went to a temple, but since he doesn't speak Hebrew, the words themselves had no meaning to him and he never thought about it. He just learned the phrases phonetically to get it over with. Same with me, I attended church services as a youth, but nobody bothered to explain why I was supposed to say the prayers. Again, I just learned it phonetically (I never spoke Latin) and the words had no meaning to me, I wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible.
The pledge of allegiance was just something the whole class said every day (under God) just as part of a normal routine, on the same level of "Good morning Mrs. Campbell!" and snack time. I did as I was told to, and I never thought about the words at all.
Essentially, the pledge of allegiance (really any prayer, pledge, national anthem) is rendered useless without taking the time to talk about the words and consider their meaning.
2007-03-18 09:47:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The pledge of allegience is just that. You can say it and mean it. You can say it and not mean it. You can not say it and mean it. You can not say it and not mean it.
It isn't a "feel" thing. If you feel that your allegiance is to this country, then nothing else matters and conversely, no amount of saying it will make you a patriotic American if you don't mean it.
Do you have a problem with the God part? If you really have a problem with that, I think that you have a severe scarcity of problems because you are holding on to that one far to tightly...let it go. It isn't about God, it is about Allegience to America.
2007-03-18 09:25:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
i'm a Christian and that i consider you. Now, as a Christian, I admit i think of everybody else must be. :) as a question of certainty, although, that no longer everybody is and the united states shape says in Article I of the invoice of Rights, "Congress shall make no regulation respecting an business enterprise of religion, or prohibiting the loose workout thereof; or abridging the liberty of speech, or of the clicking; or the main superb of the folk peaceably to deliver at the same time, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." And it does look that having "under God" in the form infringes upon the "business enterprise of religion" clause. of direction, i'm no longer a pleasing courtroom Justice, this is merely my opinion.
2016-10-19 00:27:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it should be ABOLISHED!!!
The pledge was written by Francis Bellamy, a prominent 19th and 20th century socialist who wanted to destroy the American concept of individual rights.
Bellamy believed that children should be indoctrinated with "military socialism." The original pledge was to be accompanied with the "Bellamy salute," which you and I know as the Nazi salute.
2007-03-18 13:32:07 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus Jones 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe God doesn't want us pledging allegiance to flags. There's a commandment against it. It's called "idolatry".
I pledge my allegiance to The Most High, who made me an American patriot here on Earth.
When my government calls me to do something against God or against the Constitution, it is my right and my duty to resist.
2007-03-18 09:38:12 · answer #6 · answered by oimwoomwio 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I'm an atheist...but i don't care that 'under god' is in the pledge..i think it's ridiculous that people get offended because of that...
2007-03-18 10:01:36 · answer #7 · answered by Paulien 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I feel One Nation Under GOD~You?
2007-03-18 09:19:34 · answer #8 · answered by Classic96 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think that we should let everyone say whatever they want to say during the under god part. It is actually unconstitutional to make Hindus and Buddhists to say under god because they don't believe in the Christian god but, the USA should still recognize that we have religions so during the under go part it would officially be if written out something like this"(you may state you god or superior being)". I think this would please everyone and our government would recognize that we have different religions and let us express that.
2007-03-18 09:26:59 · answer #9 · answered by NFrancis 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I feel it would make more sense to teach kids how to spell ALLEGIANCE than to waste time on that.
2007-03-18 09:23:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋