My Take on the Pledge of Alliegance
I have, for a long time now opted out of saying the "Pledge of Alliegance". I believe, like the Founding Fathers, that the government owes it's alligience to the people, NOT the people to the government.
Recently, however, I have chosen to say the pledge again. Therefore I have composed the following pledge which I now say at public events:
"I pledge allegiance
to the people
of the United States of America
And to the people
for which the republic stands
one nation
free to believe or disbelieve
indivisible
for liberty and justice for all"
posted by ColoradoCelt @ 8:51 AM
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2 Comments:
I don't think many people on either side really stop to consider the implication of having "under God" in the pledge. I think people typically focus on it as a public Christianity/Christianity under attack sort of thing. In reality, the literal meaning of it says that America is under the power of God...that we are not a sovereign nation. This is what I find more troubling. If a country owes its sovereignity to god, it is a theocratic nation almost by definition.
The man in Estes Park who was removed from the City Council for refusing to say The Pledge with Under God in it is yet another victim of this perverse theocratic impulse. Many of the people howling for his blood were born BEFORE the phrase "under God" was added to the Pledge in 1954.
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