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To: JimWayne; Monorprise; Alamo-Girl
It is clearly an oath to be a drone who gets indoctrinated by the government.

Well, that's one way to look at it, I suppose.

On the other hand, to me, the Pledge is "to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands," the one nation — the American nation (that is, We the People) — which the DoI recognizes as a nation "under God."

Note to recognize a nation "under God" is to say that our unalienable rights are not grants of the government, but of the God Who created all men equal.

It is in no sense a pledge of fidelity — a "loyalty oath" — to the federal government.

Governments change. The values that made and make America a good and just and strong nation do not. To say the Pledge is to remind oneself of that fact.

Just my two cents' worth.

45 posted on 06/21/2011 1:54:22 PM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through, the eye. — William Blake)
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To: betty boop

To be honest that is a way to look at it, but it is not the way the pledge was intended by the devout socialist who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.
If I were to alter the pledge I would remove the words “one nation”, “indivisible”, and replace the word “the” with “theses”. I would also replace the word “flag” with the word “Constitution” and the word “for” with the word “over”.

If there must be a pledge at all to the Federal Government it should look like this:

“I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of these United States of America, and to the republic over which it stands under God, with liberty and justice for all.”


46 posted on 06/21/2011 3:23:53 PM PDT by Monorprise
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