Muslims, Atheists, Jehovah Witnesses, Jews, Do you say the pledge of Allegiance? (& Any religions I left out)?

Question

I know that christians say The Pledge of allegiance!!(I am one)Do other religions?

Answer 1

you are an angel!
I'm soooo happy we are connected through Jesus

Answer 2

As Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses, give worship only to God through Jesus Christ. Christians are not supposed to worship any flag or nation except God's Kingdom.

Did you not read where Jesus said, "They are not part of the world just as I am no part of the world. If they were, the world would love its own.(John 15: 19; 14: 19, 30;17: 16) The world hates them because they are no part of the world.

Indeed, James 4: 4 goes on to say friendship with the world is enmity with God.

The question that should be asked now is, why are you being friends with the world? Why are you worshipping a piece of cloth?

Answer 3

I am a Mormon (new convert) and I read in Yahoo Answer that Mormons don't say the pledge of allegiance and I was like WHAT? why if there's nothing wrong with it and it is Under God? A few days after I read the thing I asked one of the missionaries if this was true and we recited the pledge of allegiance together and he told me that yes, Mormon can say the P of A. ^_^ I know that JW's don't say it because they say that it is like worshiping the flag or something like that.

It took a while for me to memorize the pledge so I'm glad that I can say it. hehe...

Answer 4

Yes, but I admit it seems silly to pledge to a cloth. I say the words more as a pledge to the United States, as outlined in the Constitution. Blind patriotism is un-American, and much of what the government is doing these days is wrong. I do not pledge allegiance to any political leaders, only to the concepts of liberty and justice, and to just and reasonable law, so long as I am an American citizen.

Answer 5

Jehovah's witnesses do not say the pledge of alliegience, as our alliegience is to God first then to government. Saluting the flag, or standing to say the pledge of alliegience is actually a form of an act of worship, and the bible clearly says that we must worship one, God.
We however are respectful at times where these things are done.

Answer 6

Well, you did leave out quite a few like the Hindus, Buddhists, etc.

However, I'd like to say that I've seen all of them have no problem with the Pledge.

Like onewhosubmits, aka PokiPoki, said, the American Muslims have no problem with the "God" because that's just Allah, to them and Allah is the only one they submit to.

It would seem that some Politicians seem to want to claim that they represent all of the Muslims, even if they aren't Muslim, themselves, and have formed the PC Brigade.

In all fairness, I've seen a lot of Muslims state most clearly here and elsewhere, that they had no problems with "God" nor the "Cross" nor"Christmas".

Go figure.

Peace.

ST

Answer 7

You know, just because someone in the country doesn't believe in the same God as you doesn't make them unpatriotic. I mean, come on. "Under God" was inserted into the Pledge in 1954. Does that mean that anyone who said the Pledge before that must have been godless?

Why would you even ask this? Honestly? Trying to make a point or something? Yes, I say it - I just don't say "under God".

Answer 8

Adherents of the 'Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses' pledge their allegiance to God Almighty, and to Christ. They do not chant any rehearsed pledge to any flag of any nation.

By the way, Jehovah's Witnesses are Christians.

This so-called "question" seems intended almost entirely to pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians. Sadly, trinitarians repeatedly pretend that Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christian. Trinitarians use an artificial, trinity-specific definition of the term "Christian" which excludes anyone who does not believe that Jesus is God Himself, rather than the Son of God. Interestingly, pagans in the first century pretended that Christ's followers were Atheists(!) because the Christians had a somewhat different idea from the pagans about the nature of God.

Jehovah's Witnesses teach that no salvation occurs without Christ, that accepting Christ's sacrifice is a requirement for true worship, that every prayer must acknowledge Christ, that Christ is the King of God's Kingdom, that Christ is the head of the Christian congregation, that Christ is immortal and above every creature, even that Christ was the 'master worker' in creating the universe! Both secular dictionaries and disinterested theologians acknowledge that Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian religion.

The Trinitarian arguments are intended to insult and demean Jehovah's Witnesses, rather than to give a Scripturally accurate understanding of the term "Christian".

In fact, the bible most closely associates being "Christian" with preaching about Christ and Christ's teachings. Review all three times the bible uses the term "Christian" and note that the context connects the term with:
"declaring the good news"
'teaching quite a crowd'
'open eyes, turn from dark to light'
"uttering sayings of truth"
"persuade"
"keep on glorifying"

(Acts 11:20-26) [The early disciples of Jesus] began talking to the Greek-speaking people, declaring the good news of the Lord Jesus... and taught quite a crowd, and it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called Christians.

(Acts 26:17-28) [Jesus said to Paul] I am sending you, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God... Paul said: “I am not going mad, Your Excellency Festus, but I am uttering sayings of truth and of soundness of mind. ...Do you, King Agrippa, believe the Prophets? I know you believe.” But Agrippa said to Paul: “In a short time you would persuade me to become a Christian.”

(1 Peter 4:14-16) If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are happy... But if he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name


So why do anti-Witnesses try to hijack the term "Christian" and hide its Scriptural implications? Because anti-Witnesses recognize that it is the preaching work that makes it clear that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are by far the most prominent followers of Christ:

(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded


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http://watchtower.org/e/ti/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
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Answer 9

I am a member of the churches of Christ, I refuse to say the pledge of allegiance. I am also a citizen of the Confederate States of America (CSA Registered Citizen).

Answer 10

You know there are groups trying to take God out of the pledge; in fact, out of the country.

Our constitution defends a plurality of religion. Holy wars were the result of one having sway over the populace.

The antagonists need study the millions who died by atheistic governments, like Napoleon's French Revolution, or Lennon's Communist Manifesto.

Both those countries allow a plurality of religion now--thanks to God.

However, if you have not caught the trend, many are advocating a forced one-world religion to prevent religious strife. It will never work, and will usher in Christ's second coming.

See: http://abiblecode.tripod.com for God's last warning.

Blessings, One-Way

Answer 11

I did when I was a kid. These days, politically, I just find the whole idea of a pledge of allegiance to a flag kind of weird and jingoistic. But it hasn't come up, as adults seldom say it.

It was written by a registered socialist you know.