What do you think?
A big shock to NBC You’re Going to Love It!
If you read this and agree that “under God” should be left in the pledge, then just forward it to others and you have voted for it to be left in.
If you delete it and don’t forward it you are voting no to “under God”. Easy huh!!!
Official versions (changes in bold italics)
1892
“I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”
1892 to 1923
“I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”
1923 to 1924
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”
1924 to 1954
“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.”
1954 to Present
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America , and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Shock to NBC
This is not sent for discussion. If you agree, forward it… If you don’t, delete it. I don’t want to know one way or the other. By my forwarding it, you know how I feel.
Do you believe that the word God should stay in American culture? NBC this morning had a poll on this question. They had the highest number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls, and the percentage was the same as this:
86% to keep the words, In God We Trust and God in the Pledge of Allegiance – 14% against
That is a pretty ‘commanding’ public response.
I was asked to send this on if I agreed or delete if I didn’t…
Now it is your turn. It is said that 86% of Americans believe the word God should stay…
Therefore, I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a mess about having ‘In God We Trust’ on our money and having God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Why is the world catering to this 14%?
AMEN!
If you agree, pass this on. if not, simply delete.
In God We Trust
Thanks Brian.
This is the wrong battle.
Frankly to me it doesnt matter if the word “God” is still in our public dscourse or not.
The word God means nothing. It is God’s word that means everything.
And that has been thrown out, attacked and despised right here in America.
They tossed out pray in schools and the bible a long time ago so does it really matter if we say “In God we trust?” Why be hypocritical? Thats my two cents.
PSALM 138:2
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Here’s something else to consider about the words “In God we trust.” It is a lie. “We” includes all of us, both the 86% and the 14%, and I’ll bet that many of those in the 86% don’t really trust in God (they only say that they do). So you are right that the phrase is an example of our national hypocrisy.
Thanks The Greater
Pretty hard to disagree with any of the psalms.
Ditto to the above, James and Al.
But surely it is blasphemy to still have the words ‘In God we trust’ on the dollar which ought to read ‘In QE we trust.’
Good one!!!
It really is, isn’t it Ann!
That is great, Reverend!
I Agree ! !
How about………… One Nation Under Hypocrisy……..or One Nation Under NSA Surveillance
Hypocrisy is a good way to put it.
Thats true.
God finds unequal weights and measures an abomination and that is what we are doing to our currency (note I do not use the word money)
I did note that, The Greater!
Yes James.
Seems like words over substance. If Americans were truly so Christian, would we be waging war continuously the way we do? WWJD?
Why does something as secular as coinage in a ‘melting pot’ need a Christian message on it?
I’d rather have our youth study the constitution and the declaration of independence, and critical thinking, than forced to repeat a pledge of allegiance (or is it obedience?) every morning.
You’re right. The pledge is a tool of a statist system and was written by a socialist.
Exactly. If the US were living up to the ideals we were taught it stands for, the allegiance would come automatically, no conditioning required.
Whether the phrase “under God” stays in the pledge of allegiance is not an issue for me. The issue for me is the pledge itself. What is the good of reciting a loyalty oath. It doesn’t make you loyal or patriotic. I demonstrate my loyalty to my country by being socially responsible, obeying the law, paying taxes, voting in elections, serving on a jury when called upon, etc. I think my demonstration of loyalty is infinitely more meaningful than merely saying a pledge. A terrorist could stand at attention, look up at the flag, put his hand over his heart, and say the words “I pledge allegiance…” Would that make him a patriotic American? Instead of quibbling over a certain phrase, I think we should dispose of the pledge altogether.
Our founders would have never pledge there allegiance to any flag that represented a nation that violates our natural rights, and the very principl’so that our nation was founded on . They did not believe in allegiance to governments of a of a overbearing nature . So for me the word Allegiance should be structure from this pledge
Right, and they did not conflate government with country as politicians today would like everyone to do.
An associated historical point regarding coinage.
The phrase “In God We Trust” did not appear on US coins until the 1865 2-cent piece.
“The act which created the two-cent piece authorized the Mint Director, with the Secretary of the Treasury’s approval, to prescribe the designs and mottos to be used. Longacre’s two-cent piece was the first coin inscribed with “In God We Trust”. The motto was popularized by the new coin; in 1865 Congress passed legislation ordering its use on all coins large enough to permit it. Since 1938 it has been used on all American coins.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_piece_(United_States)
Just my two cents,
Brian