Reasons why to keep "under God" in pledge of allegiance.?

Question

I already know because it was founded on Christian values...

I need more reasons!!! Please!!! As many as you can list!!!

I need reasons for, not against it!!!

Answer 1

1. It will be too expensive to change all of those pledge documents.
2. People who have been saying the pledge since it added "under God" may have a hard time remembering to leave it out.
3. At least it makes us sound like we are religious and not hypocrits (like we really are).

Answer 2

To preserve the strength of the Christian politics. It's obvious that the republican party is seeing a growth in the power of Christianity- Huckabee's catching up to Rudy. And many people vote primarily based on religious issues before others, so "under God" is just another daily reminder that Christianity is a huge factor in politics. In fact, it's a daily reminder that separation of church and state just isn't that important to some people, and even though my freedom of religion is entitled to me, I'm still enduring it (or was) every time I pledged allegiance.

I'm glad Christianity is so dominate in American politics that we make Italy, my family's Vatican obsessed country, look secular, because it makes me feel like a powerless non Christian minority and that even though the founding Fathers supposedly found America on Christian values, they also found a nation where people respected each other NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION, which is probably why "under God" wasn't in the pledge origionally. So yeah, if you want to keep us all brain washed go ahead and keep it in there, but the only two reasons why I personally feel that it should be there are:

1- it makes it easier for me to win debates against the Christian right- which I've done against politicians

and 2- a man running our country in a manner based off of Christian values spent all the money the we would need to change everything back to secular pledges but who cares because the Bible says money is evil even though oil tycoons are elected for having Christian values.

So thank you for violating me and the two thirds of the nation who DON'T cry just because we don't do things the way the Pope or your minister wants us to.

Answer 3

The great majority of Americans believe in God. The term "under God" mere posits the existence of a higher power, a concept which practically all of the Founding Fathers.

The term "under God" does not promote any single religion.

"Under God" does not constitute a prayer.

The U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. Just look at our currency. It says, "In God We Trust". Is anyone suggesting that should be removed as well?

Behind the bench where the Supreme Court justices sit, the Ten Commandments are inscribed in the wall. Clearly, our nation was founded on religious principles. There are such universal beliefs, such as forbidding murder, that there is nothing controversial about them.

From the time of our founding fathers, Bibles were distributed in Congress. Congress opens each session with a prayer. When a President is inaugurated, he is sworn into office with his hand on a bible.

Considering all this, having the innocuous words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, should not be controversial at all. Our Founding Fathers would have approved.

Answer 4

a million. there's a growing to be share of individuals who don't think in God. the proportion is slowly growing to be from a million% to 2%. that particularly isn't an significant sufficient style to result exchange in a representative legislature. 2. The ultimate court docket has held that because of the fact you're under no federal legal legal accountability to declare the Pledge, you're able to make no clever argument for the Pledge being unconstitutional. 3. in spite of if Congress wastes the time it would take to convey this up for a vote and desperate that the words "under God" might desire to be bothered from the Pledge, maximum individuals might proceed to declare them, and since the form ensures their freedom of speech, there could be no struggling with them. So then we are good decrease back the place all of us started, yet possibly the atheists who love united statesa. might have the skill to sleep greater desirable at evening. 4. The Pledge exchange into written by potential of an avowed socialist--that should be of a few convenience to you.

Answer 5

Its tradition and if you actually wanted to just examine the rhetoric you could argue that they mean a nation under god which is a title not a name so it could easily mean that any god could preside over our nation. Although it is completly up to interpretation i dont think it should be changed mainly because is tradition and then were is the line if you can change that. Pretty soon we might end up with people not being able to display a nativity infront of a christian church or the minora im not sure how to spell it infront of a jewish church.

Answer 6

Without God our nation would be just like Syria, China and lots of civil wars and very bad things

Answer 7

You mean synigoge...
I think that "under god" means we our a nation founded on Godly principles.

Answer 8

for the same reason that a president has to be religious to be elected-to appease all the religious people out there who need the security of religion, in any way, but especially involving the government or security

Answer 9

Honestly go listen to Mitt Romneys Speach on faith in ameria from thursday. I think he had some good points about seperation of church and state and spoke about it.