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Okay...you said "it's a pledge to a god". I'm telling you no, it's not; stating that the first line of the Pledge specifically says pledging alleginace to our county, not a god.
What is so difficult to understand?
EDIT: Yeah, I'm editing for additional information that I wanted to add to my post. So what? And thank you Ugga for trying to reinforce my point
What a horrible ruling. The government should not be leading my child in a pledge to a god.
In truth, you should be opposed to the government forcing children who don't yet even have the capacity for reason, to begin pledging their blind allegiance to a nation they know nothing about.
If you wanted to be principled, you should abolish the pledge of allegiance. And if you really wanted to be consistent, you would abolish the government indoctrination facilities that we call "public schools".
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag and to the Republic for which it stands.
Please explain how it is a pledge to God.
"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God..."
It says we're pledging to the Flag and the Republic, but we're not really pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth, we're pledging allegiance to the ideas for which our nation stands.
The pledge doesn't enumerate all of the ideas embodied by our nation, but it does describes two of them: the first is that we're a Republic, and the second is the part added in the 1950s: "under God." Under means in a condition of subjection and subordination. So when you say "under God", you're pledging allegiance to the idea that our nation is the subject of, and subordinate to, God.
That's a pledge to God (in a sense, it's a stronger pledge to God than it is to the US).
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