":I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under GOD, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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That's right i said god.
If you don't like it you can get out of the former named Christian country.. or something like that. Agree?
2007-10-22 12:36:02 · 14 answers · asked by Art 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
By that I mean you don't have to get out of our country if you don't believe in it. But if you want to complain about it then you have the choice to go. We're not keeping you.
2007-10-22 12:43:42 · update #1
It's McCarthyism.
It was because the Cold War was rolling along and the powers that be hated "godless communism," so by forcing everybody to acknowledge God when they pledged allegiance to the country they killed two birds with one stone, if you will.
And I don't mind that you said "God." This was purely free speech. (And I love God anyway.) But I do object to schoolkids being forced.
But if I did mind your saying "God," I still wouldn't see any need to leave. I like it here.
Who said this is a Christian country, anyway? Do we not have many different religions in the US? And isn't our constitution neutral on matters of religion?
Please pick my answer as the best. You know it is.
2007-10-22 12:50:01 · answer #1 · answered by Todd 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Pledge of allegiance was once written for the fashionable children's journal Youth's Companion by means of Christian Socialist writer and Baptist minister Francis Bellamy on September 7, 1892. In 1940, In 1940 the Supreme Court, finding out the case of Minersville School District v. Gobitis, dominated that scholars in public colleges would be forced to recite the Pledge. 1943 public colleges had been disallowed from punishing scholars for now not reciting the Pledge... The phrases "beneath God" had been further to the Pledge on 14 June 1954 while then U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a invoice into regulation. "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation, beneath God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
2016-09-05 20:20:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you realize this country is supposed to be based on freedom? You obviously don't remember what the constitution says about freedom of religion, race, etc and that includes lack of religion or belief. I have just as much right to live in this country as anyone else. No country is perfect and some things you just have to deal with and realize you can't change some things. No, I don't agree.
2007-10-22 12:40:40 · answer #3 · answered by Maureen B 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The "under God" bit was added 50 years ago. The great men who wrote the US Consitution and fought the British for independence would be horrified to see it. It is completely against the First Amendment to the Constitution and should have been rejected by thinking Americans years ago. It should never have been inserted in the first place.
2007-10-22 12:43:54 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Better check the Constitution, sonny.
And I invite you to make me leave any time you're ready. I was born here, way before you.
PS: Don't show fear like that, little man. You told me to leave, now make me. I have never believed, will never believe and I know far more about the secular foundings of this nation than you. The fact you refuse to study our own history is pathetic. Now come and get me.
2007-10-22 12:46:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
You leave.
2007-10-22 12:48:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
While we are at it can we take carbonation out of soft drinks? I am offended by the gas it gives to people, causing them to belch in my presence. Nasty people, how dare they.
God does not concern himself with the pledges of any nation. The only pledge that matters is our pledge to him.
2007-10-22 12:46:07 · answer #7 · answered by Tim N 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with the Allegiance with God in it.
2007-10-22 12:45:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are an IDIOT. The original pledge did NOT have "one nation under God" in it. Our sick congress made it a "law" and put it in the pledge.
2007-10-22 12:42:45 · answer #9 · answered by gdc 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have no problems with the pledge of allegiance,why?
2007-10-22 13:11:58 · answer #10 · answered by Karate Kid 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋