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This is America. If you don't like the fact that people exercise their constitutional right to hold different views than yours, then feel free to move to Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan where they saw your head off with a knife because you decided the phrase "under God" is a load of BS.
Or, just grow up and deal with it like the rest of us.
This is America. If you don't like the fact that people exercise their constitutional right to hold different views than yours, then feel free to move to Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan where they saw your head off with a knife because you decided the phrase "under God" is a load of BS.
Or, just grow up and deal with it like the rest of us.
That's exactly what's happening in those countries. The fanatics are insisting that everybody adhere to their religion. No religion should be favored in public schools, nor should any particular deity.
Silent prayer? Ok. Expecting the student body to recite it? Not ok.
That's exactly what's happening in those countries. The fanatics are insisting that everybody adhere to their religion. No religion should be favored in public schools, nor should any particular deity.
Silent prayer? Ok. Expecting the student body to recite it? Not ok.
Agreed. Furthermore, America worked just fine in 1954, prior to adding "under God" to the pledge. The pledge sounds better without it:
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.
"Under God" adds nothing. The original verse is tighter and makes more sense.
Incidentally, I was taught a difference cadence than most. Where I come from, it's not "I pledge allegiance...to the flag...of the United States.... of America.........And to the republic....for which it stands" (Which is how I most often hear it recited. Schoolchildren never give up the cadence for some reason. It just sounds weird to my ears.)
Instead, I say it like this:
"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."
This is America. If you don't like the fact that people exercise their constitutional right to hold different views than yours, then feel free to move to Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan where they saw your head off with a knife because you decided the phrase "under God" is a load of BS.
Or, just grow up and deal with it like the rest of us.
Or...
Return the pledge to it's pre-1954 "under god" revision.
"Under god" in the pledge of allegiance is a lot like 1950s architecture. It seemed like a great idea at the time, but in hindsight we were better off with what we had before.
The "under god" nonsense was added in just 60 years ago by some zealots. When I am forced to recite the Little League pledge and this pledge of allegiance before games, I always omit the "I trust in god" from the Little League pledge and the "under god" from the pledge of allegiance because god is a fairy tale.
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