As Your Kids and Grandkids Return to Schooll...

[LoneLaugher]

....make sure you remind them that when they recite the Pledge of Allegience on Monday, they are paying homage to the author.......a SOCIALIST.

Happy New Year

The Pledge of Allegiance doesn't pay homage to the writer, it pays homage to our country and flag.

The modern day socialists stopped children from reciting it in school because they don't like our country, our flag or the fact that the pledge has the word, "God", in it. I guess you didn't know that. Apparently, you've been out of school so long, you forgot how to spell it.

That was a very deep comment. I predict many "thanks" coming your way.

 

[TemplarKormac]

....make sure you remind them that when they recite the Pledge of Allegience on Monday, they are paying homage to the author.......a SOCIALIST.

Happy New Year

I'll make sure to tell them not to give a damn what Bellamy believed, LL. The Pledge is a pledge, not an endorsement of one political belief or another.

 

[KNB]

The United States is not "one nation under God" because "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." They're the first words of the first sentence of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

You can't just skip that important part because you want to get to the part where you think that it says that every drunken toothless inbred southern Confederate redneck can own automatic weapons.

 

[MeBelle]

The United States is not "one nation under God" because "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." They're the first words of the first sentence of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

You can't just skip that important part because you want to get to the part where you think that it says that every drunken toothless inbred southern Confederate redneck can own automatic weapons.

Then why does Congress recite the pledge?
And, pray tell, what religion is being 'established' by saying the pledge?

 

[KNB]

The First Amendment means "This is not a Christian nation and it never will be." This isn't a Muslim nation, a Jewish nation, a Scientologist nation, certainly not a Mormon nation, and it isn't Atheist, either. Keep your "God" out of the public government because not everyone thinks like you.

This is the separation of church and state that red state voters can't seem to understand. Your God is a sad little fairy tale that grown adults tell each other to make yourselves think that you are important to someone, somewhere. You're not important and there isn't an invisible man in the sky, so stop trying to force everyone to believe your crazy bedtime stories. You can go to whatever church that you choose, pray to whatever alien Bigfoot leprechaun in the sky that you want, but do not ever think for a second that you are going to pass a public referendum that declares your insane bedtime story as the only "official" insane bedtime story.

There's nothing in the fossil record that indicates that there was ever a talking snake, therefore the Bible is not "100% historically accurate from the living word of God". It's a fairy tale about talking snakes, half-man/half-goat human-animal hybrids living in the center of the Earth, invisible magical ghosts with wings who live in a golden palace on a cloud, and Hercules who was the only begotten son of Zeus and born of a virgin.

Why does Congress recite the pledge? Because they have to keep up the appearance that they care about what "God" had to say. It's the same as wearing some pointless American flag pin on their jackets. It doesn't actually mean anything. The truth is that they don't care about the Bible and they especially do not care at all about the teachings of Christ. If they did, they wouldn't lie to start wars. If the voters cared about Jesus' teachings, they wouldn't cheer on indiscriminate death and destruction for over ten years.

 

[koshergrl]

What utter balderdash.

 

[Stephanie]

another thread from a oh so Tolerant progressive/liberal bashing our country and the people in it

how lovely

 

[koshergrl]

And proudly using kids to do it.

Color me surprised.

 

[Stephanie]

And proudly using kids to do it.

Color me surprised.

It's because they "care" about them, don't forget

 

[Delta4Embassy]

....make sure you remind them that when they recite the Pledge of Allegience on Monday, they are paying homage to the author.......a SOCIALIST.

Happy New Year

Ignoring what I assume was a twitchy finger... I've always wondered if it's even constitutional making legal minors, who can't enter into a contract, take a loyalty pledge? Surely it can't bind them in any legal sense?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

The First Amendment means "This is not a Christian nation and it never will be." This isn't a Muslim nation, a Jewish nation, a Scientologist nation, certainly not a Mormon nation, and it isn't Atheist, either. Keep your "God" out of the public government because not everyone thinks like you.

This is the separation of church and state that red state voters can't seem to understand. Your God is a sad little fairy tale that grown adults tell each other to make yourselves think that you are important to someone, somewhere. You're not important and there isn't an invisible man in the sky, so stop trying to force everyone to believe your crazy bedtime stories. You can go to whatever church that you choose, pray to whatever alien Bigfoot leprechaun in the sky that you want, but do not ever think for a second that you are going to pass a public referendum that declares your insane bedtime story as the only "official" insane bedtime story.

There's nothing in the fossil record that indicates that there was ever a talking snake, therefore the Bible is not "100% historically accurate from the living word of God". It's a fairy tale about talking snakes, half-man/half-goat human-animal hybrids living in the center of the Earth, invisible magical ghosts with wings who live in a golden palace on a cloud, and Hercules who was the only begotten son of Zeus and born of a virgin.

Why does Congress recite the pledge? Because they have to keep up the appearance that they care about what "God" had to say. It's the same as wearing some pointless American flag pin on their jackets. It doesn't actually mean anything. The truth is that they don't care about the Bible and they especially do not care at all about the teachings of Christ. If they did, they wouldn't lie to start wars. If the voters cared about Jesus' teachings, they wouldn't cheer on indiscriminate death and destruction for over ten years.

Legally it's not any sort of religious nation, that's true. But in effect, since the majority by far identifies as Christian, it is, at least in effect, a Christian nation just as Arab countries like Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. are Muslim nations.

 

[koshergrl]

And they aren't forced to make the pledge, either.

More evidence of the limited capacity of the leftist brain.

 

[Agit8r]

I recall saying the pledge when home-schooled, and recall thinking at a fairly young age that the general criticism of the federal government that I heard in the home did not comport with the actual wording of the pledge. In my mind this cast the pledge in poor light rather than my parents.

If we are going to be completely honest, it is a recitation of absolute statism.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I recall saying the pledge when home-schooled, and recall thinking at a fairly young age that the general criticism of the federal government that I heard in the home did not comport with the actual wording of the pledge. In my mind this cast the pledge in poor light rather than my parents.

If we are going to be completely honest, it is a recitation of absolute statism.

I don't believe a word of this bullshit. These are the thoughts of an adult with too much time on their hands, not a child.

Fail

 

[Agit8r]

I recall saying the pledge when home-schooled, and recall thinking at a fairly young age that the general criticism of the federal government that I heard in the home did not comport with the actual wording of the pledge. In my mind this cast the pledge in poor light rather than my parents.

If we are going to be completely honest, it is a recitation of absolute statism.

I don't believe a word of this bullshit. These are the thoughts of an adult with too much time on their hands, not a child.

Fail

Kids are capable of understanding what the words in the pledge mean. I was. It takes the sophistication of an adult mind to parse opposing the particular actions of an administration (or series of administrations) and pledging allegiance to government in spite of it. I saw simply the raw irony.