How do you feel about the Texas Pledge changing?

Question

I don't think it was neceary to add 'God' to the pledge. I am a catholic and believe in God, but there's a boundary that shouldn't have crossed.

Answer 1

i feel that no country's pledge should ever be changed. a pledge was written during/after independence, and holds a great significance. even changing, or adding a word, will make it lose its significance.

moreover adding a word such as God into it, might cause an international chaos due to religious differences.

Answer 2

For those who are misguided, the pledge of allegiance was written by Bellamy to promote the flag sales campaign that the magazine Youth's companion was doing at the end of the XIX century.
It has nothing to do with the independence movement and not even in the same time framework.
It's as meaningful as a Coke jingle.
Adding religion to it only makes it worse.

You're right. They're boundaries that shouldn't be crossed but this is one that has been crossed many years ago.
The pledge as Bellamy promoted it was nice but making that into a legal requirement is awful.
The flag is supposed to represent freedom, liberty and justice. If you impose by law, under threat of violence and imprisonment, that the pledge has to be recited, where's the freedom? where's the liberty? where's the justice?
And if you add to that shoving religious beliefs down everybody's throat, we're back to the dark ages. Ruled by tyrannic kings, supporting their wars with labor and with the church burning infidels, common dissenters and socially undesirables.
It's time to go back to the principles of freedom. In such society there's no need to pledge allegiance. Free man are ready to fight for that.
Under a socialist regime where loyalty is measured by the pledge of allegiance, people don't fight for it. They just submit to the new leader and start reciting a new mantra.

Answer 3

I am not catholic, nor particularly religious, but I am a Texan. I don't care if God is in the pledge or not. Personally, I think we should focus on more important things than wording. How about child abuse or education. Family values or terrorism. Just about any other topic would be more beneficial to society as a whole then this. Come on People, WAKE UP and Pay Attention! Put your thoughts to meaningful pursuits.

Answer 4

OH i am so in texas
i remember on the first day of school we were all confused and thought he messed up.
It is weird at first to hear, after being used to it and all, but then it kinda grows on you.
Well my opinion is that our pledge should not be changed.
I mean once the state made it pledge... gosh! i cant believe it, its pretty much lost its meaning. There is still alot of meaning to it, but now it just isnt the same someone who was not even there and did nothing to become part of the United States changes it becuase why?
I think that its not right.
:)

Answer 5

Political pandering. The "Under God" phrase was added to the US pledge in the McCarthy era. Apparently, acknowledging God in our pledge of allegiance helped to ward off the imminent communist threat at the time. Whew, good thing that we changed that or we might live in a socialist state now. Oh wait, many of us do.

Answer 6

It's especially stupid when you consider that students in Texas are forced by law to say the pledge on a daily basis.

Answer 7

My feeling is:

I dont live in Texas

I dont plan on visting

Perhaps i should mind my own business.