does it imtimdate them? Are they scared that america is a Christian Country?
2007-05-27 16:19:00 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!
2007-05-27 16:21:52 · update #1
Tell you what keep your damn "under God" crap and let "Imagine" be the new national anthem.
Truce?
2007-05-27 16:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 2⤋
Because were not a christian nation. Any pledge to the flag and the country shouldn't include a reference to God. Besides, the minister who wrote the pledge originally never mentioned God. It wasn't added until the 50's and against the wished of the original authors family.
2007-05-27 16:37:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am certain that some atheists "want to take God out of the pledge" because it was shoved in during the McCarthy era's paranoid reaction to "Godless Communism." Some may want "God" out of the pledge because of the view that God does not exist, and mention of God is therefore irrelevant.
Personally, I don't mind. It affects me as much as the Salvation Army Santas on street corners. All evidence of our colorful heritage.
America is a country. A great many people who live in it are Christian, a great many are Jewish (hadn't you noticed?) and a growing number are Muslim. There are many agnostics and atheists, as well. One would be hard put, given these facts, to call America a "Christian country."
2007-05-27 16:29:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because the "One Nation, Under God" was added in during the Red Scare in the 1950's--it wasn't a part of the original pledge.
America is not a Christian country, it has no official religion. The majority of Americans might be different sects of Christianity, but religious majority isn't a sort of "majority rules" type thing. All religions, or lack thereof, are free to exist in the U.S. Some people see the "under god" portion as forcing religion on those who do not want it--a valid argument.
I, personally, don't really care if it stays or not--I just never say those two words when I say the pledge. :)
2007-05-27 16:22:13 · answer #4 · answered by Tedium 2 · 12⤊ 0⤋
Why do some Christians want to blame their own lack of education on Atheists?
As others have stated, it was fairly recently added to the Pledge of Allegiance. It's unconstitutional for any country which guarantees freedom from religious persecution to tell ANYONE what to say regarding any system of faith. It's also unconsititutional for any low-brow teacher to insist that an Atheist say it--and it has been faced before.
It wasn't there in the first place because it never belonged there. Throw it out!
By the way: If America is a Christian country, it's been overtaken. Otherwise, there's no need to guarantee via a Constitutional Amendment anyone's freedom to worship--or NOT worship--however they please. Stop claiming ownership for what doesn't belong to you.
2007-05-27 16:43:46 · answer #5 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
America is a secular country, not a Christian one. You will not find the Ten Commandments anywhere in the Constitution. If it were a "Christian" country, it would be a theocracy...and I don't think you would like that very much.
The "under God" nonsense was added after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic, rabidly anti-Communist group. The words were added specifically as a "slap in the face" against the "godless" Soviet Union...a paper tiger than epople were convinved was the coming of the anti-Christ.
The government is supposed to be NEUTRAL on the subject of religion. End of discussion.
2007-05-27 16:34:52 · answer #6 · answered by Scott M 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a Baptist minister for a children's magazine. The Knights of Columbus had "under God" put in 1951.
We are not all Baptists or Christians and why should we have anything about God in it when it wasn't written that way?
2007-05-27 16:46:11 · answer #7 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not really..... will you say the pledge if the word god is replaced by Odin, Zeus, FSM? It is the principle behind it. If the constitution guarantee freedom of rights and religions, and they want to put the word god in the pledge, they jolly well put all other religions' mascot into the pledge, and whenever there is a new mascot, they have to amend the pledge.
2007-05-27 16:24:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Never mind the God part. I have problems with the whole pledge. Allegience to a flag? To a republic? I'd rather pledge allegiance to the people and to the constitution. It would sound less fascist that way.
2007-05-27 18:43:38 · answer #9 · answered by skepsis 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
they just want the pledge returned to it's original format.
God was Added durring the cold war..to both pledge and money.
it is people like you that assume that because it was that way ever since you could remember that it was that way from the beginning. and use this misguided belief to somehow hold that this is a christian theoracy and not a secular country. that make them even bother with it.
most of them really dont care about the pledge or what is written on our money. they only care because people like you try to use that to force your beliefs into some crazy laws that we all have to follow regardless of religion.
2007-05-27 16:24:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, this isn't a christian country. It's a secular one, and that phrase simply doesn't belong there. It was put in in the 1960's, and it's time it came out.
No matter how many times you yell it, this is a secular country, even if 99.9% of the citizens were christian (and they aren't).
2007-05-27 16:28:00 · answer #11 · answered by eri 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋