That our Founding Fathers wrote the Pledge of Allegiance (including the "under God" part) AND....they put "In God We Trust" on our currency...
Is this the kind of thing our schools are teaching our children? Or do the ones who believe this, just not know any better???
2007-11-03 07:07:12 · 14 answers · asked by Adam G 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not totally their fault. This is what they have been taught at their churches, the same churches that pound into their heads not to question what they are taught at church.
Brainwashed sheep are easier to control, afterall.
2007-11-03 07:10:17 · answer #1 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 9⤊ 4⤋
I have never seen or heard of this being taught in the schools. The words "under God" were added to the Pledge of Allegiance during to the Cold War to show that we were not a communist country. I do not know when "In God We Trust" first appeared on our currency.
Our schools do refuse to teach the truth that the Founding Fathers were Christians and stated that a democracy would not work unless it was a country of "God fearing men." Or that our public schools were established so that every child would be able to read the Bible for themselves.
I believe that there are misbeliefs on both sides of this issue and that attacking the ones who believe differently than you do will only increase their insistance on what they believe.
2007-11-03 07:22:51 · answer #2 · answered by joanney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The schools don't teach that and neither do the churches. It's one of those bad habits that kids pick up on the streets.
However, even though the pledge and the currency statement did not come from the Founding Fathers, this country was developed by various groups of people who mostly had some sense of faith in the Almighty God.
Also, a lot of the original colonists came here to avoid religious persecution (the Pope and the King of England telling them what, and in whom, they were allowed to believe). They came here to worship the one true God rather than being forced to worship the pope or the king.
2007-11-03 07:14:44 · answer #3 · answered by Bobby 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can a person say anything? We say and do a lot of things not because we actually live by it we just want to say and do things to please the majority. This is a new day. Now the world is showing their true colors. They never wanted God they just wanted to make others think they did. It is reflected in this generation of children. Our we righteous.No! Abraham was counted righteous,not because he did anything great for God.It was because he trusted God and did what God asked him to do. He believed the word of God.
2007-11-03 07:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by God is love. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You honestly think that schools are teaching that?! Quite the contrary - schools are very delicate in their treatment of the founding fathers, and hardly teach any significant information on the subject.
Case in point - do people actually believe that Banjamin Franklin was a Deist?
2007-11-03 07:18:43 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it's true that many US citizens aren't better informed. The "under God" bit was added in the 1950s. And the founders were not "followers of the almighty god" as one prior post puts it. Jefferson, in many public and private writings, is clearly a theist/agnostic (if such a creature can exist).
2007-11-03 07:26:35 · answer #6 · answered by kwxilvr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They honestly don't know any better. Its been said so many times and by so many people that this nation was founded by christians on christian principles that it has become myth.
Nobody ever opens up a book or even reads the constitution that they assume its true because they heard it somewhere.
Even Huckabee said the other day that half of the signers of the constitution were clergymen. Turns out it was only 1 (3 if you count former clergymen).
2007-11-03 07:13:36 · answer #7 · answered by Paul B 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I went to Catholic School and Church my whole life and I was never taught any of those things. I learned correct history.
So the people that want to blame it on the Church or on the Schools are both wrong.
It is called how much these people actually want to justify the aggressive and domineering action of this country or groups within it by twisting history or fact. Or other people wanting to justify repression of religion or education saying that it is them who teach it.
The fault lies squarely on the people saying it themselves.(on both sides)
2007-11-03 07:27:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people are ready to believe just about anything. It's easier than to try to learn things I guess...
Faith always requires much less effort than education dear....
2007-11-03 07:33:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The schools don't teach that. Some people just want to believe that.
2007-11-03 07:11:10 · answer #10 · answered by magix151 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋