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As a pluralistic nation the words "under God" were not in the original Pledge. I wonder what those that don't believe in any deities think about such wording in the Pledge? What about those who believe in multiple gods? The Pledge punts out...
As a pluralistic nation the words "under God" were not in the original Pledge. I wonder what those that don't believe in any deities think about such wording in the Pledge? What about those who believe in multiple gods? The Pledge punts out...
...polytheistic Americans. Also, under which god? Natures's god? Yahweh? Allah? Baal? Although I think the Pledge to be Nationalistic in nature even without the words "under God" it really is a civilian form of swearing allegiance to the Flag or what it represents.
Whether there be a god, gods, or none shouldn't the idea behind it be the upon liberty and justice for all and the indivisibility of the Nation? What can be more divisible that theisms? From the beginning of our Nation there was a jockeying of one religious group...
...attempting to contend over another. It took the Secular premise to rein in this religious favoritism and write within our Constitution the Establishment Clause. However, the establishment of the rewritten Pledge injected the "under God" during the Age of the Red Scare...
...in 1954. A way of saying those "Atheistic Communists" are bad because they don't accept theism. Yet, that was all hype. It was propaganda at its core. Atheists bad, theists good. Even if they meant Communism bad, Capitalism good it still is a battle...
between two socio-economic-political systems. The ideology of theism or atheism is in itself a moot point. Theism doesn't create Capitalism, no more that atheism creates Communism. I wish for the acceptance of all people regardless of...
theism, deism, or atheism to feel included if they wish to say the Pledge. They shouldn't feel excluded. The appeal to theism or deism in the Pledge is in itself a divisive point and exclusionary. The fact that the DNC didn't hold to the Original Pledge shows me that they...
are still playing the card that there are just some folks that just aren't American enough. Playing up this video plays right into the hands of those that want a creep of theocracy into the US Government. Look up Christian Dominionism. It still plays to their appeal.
It gives them an inch where there should not be. Congress made a Law establishing, at the least, Deist language into a Law. No matter the SCOTUS overturn of the judgement by the 9th District Court June 26, 2002 based on a technicality is pure chickenshit.
Newdow made his case and that was that Congress broke the Establishment Clause. The fact that the SCOTUS could not admit to that shows a prejudice. This should not be.
