Question for atheists and other non belivers?

Question

Do you say the pledge of allegiance. How do you feel about "one nation under God"

whoa. i did not expect so many answers. lots of people have said that they haven't said it since child hood. so how do you feel about your child saying it. and dont you say it like at ballgames and stuff

Answer 1

It's a deliberately divisive phrase that should never have been added to the Pledge.

When new citizens are sworn in, it's on a far better oath, one that doesn't have the divisive phrase. Fortunately the Congress didn't get their claws on that one when they were playing Stalin's game back in 1954.

I don't say the Pledge anyway - I don't give allegiance to the flag, I give my allegiance to the United States of America. The reasons for making that distinction must be quite obvious in light of events of the past few years.
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The Pledge of Allegiance is not said at ballgames, at least in Major League Baseball. The National Anthem is sung.

I would prefer to have a child establish allegiance to the United States rather than mindlessly chant a loyalty oath that includes a line aimed at undermining the unity of the United States. This isn't a difficult call: Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is not promoting allegiance to the United States.

Answer 2

I think that the whole idea of pledging allegiance to a flag is idiotic. If Americans want to pledge allegiance to something then pledge allegiance to something real and important like the US Constitution
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution
of the United States of America
And to the spirit in which it was written
For a nation of laws not of men
with the goal of bringing liberty, justice and equality to all "
That makes sense
As far as the insertion of the " under God "phrase goes ,it wasn't part of the original Pledge .It was added during the anti-communism hysteria of the McCarthy Era and nobody has found the time to delete it

Answer 3

Don't say it. I call it the "Prayer of Allegiance" because the Pledge did NOT include those words.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

THAT was the original Pledge. We are not now nor were we ever a nation under anyone's god.

FMI, go to: www.restorethepledge.com

Answer 4

I don't think I've ever actually said the pledge out loud... I don't know about other states, but California says that school has to have a patriotic moment, and that can be anything, not just the pledge. So some schools just put a "patriotic" quote in the daily bulletin.

Answer 5

I don't say the pledge. But the "one nation under god" isn't what really bothers me and makes me not say it. The reason I don't say it is because when I do say it I feel like I'm in some communist brainwashing country, such as North Korea, where they make us worship this so called amazing country that man himself couldn't make and that our country is so amazing that the only way it could of been made was help with a god.

Answer 6

Don't like it. I grew up saying the Pledge of Allegiance overseas and never had "under God" in there until I came to the US.

Answer 7

The last time I said the pledge of allegiance was in elementary school and that was a heck of a long time ago.

Answer 8

One nation under god is a ridiculously ignorant phrase that was added by one of our more uneducated presidents, namely Eisenhower, a man who was as big a boob in the oval office as he had been great as a general in WWII. Prior to that time, that stupid phrase was not part of the pledge. Let's start a movement to return to the "one, true, original pledge" with no mention of cosmic hobgoblins needed.

Answer 9

I do not brain the label of atheist...however it's only one aspect of my philosophy, no longer my defining one. I do believe it's absurd that this sort of phrase has to exist, seeing that we would not have certain phrases for non-perception in leprechauns, unicorns or the sasquatch. That being stated, I believe after we die, that's it. Our our bodies go back to their constituent ingredients, however there's not anything else (spirit, soul) that consists of on in an "afterlife". I appreciate why persons wish to feel the ones kinds of matters, however there is not any motive to believe there's, no proof of a soul, no person who has ever communicated from the opposite part (sorry...Sylvia Browne and so forth are frauds) It could be nice if someway our concentration of self transcended our bodily deaths....nevertheless it does not occur. I'm no longer scared of loss of life, EVERYTHING dies....each man or woman, each animal that has ever lived within the historical past of lifestyles on Earth has died. Why be scared of the inevitable? I desire it is not painful and drawn out, however giving into worry is needless.

Answer 10

I don't say it.

When I was sworn into the National Guard- I didn't say it. Then after I was sworn in, I was questioned about it. Then I was threatened that my attitude problem would eventually bring me trouble in the military (you know- not believing in god). They confronted me two more times that day about it. So 2 months later after the orientation, and after my recruiter giving me a world of s#it for it (as well as a great deal of family problems I needed to deal with before I could leave them in good conscience) I took a general discharge. Among other things, I was asked to fill out and sign at least 10 different forms stating that I am not gay, have never engaged in any form of homosexual activity, and was not involved in any kind of homosexual activity... kind of funny after all the stink created from allowing gays into the military.

I wonder when all this bigotry will end...