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Subject: Re: pledge of allegiance

Author:
morpheus

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Date Posted: 02:50:09 12/25/04 Sat
In reply to: Anne 's message, "Re: pledge of allegiance" on 09:38:38 12/21/04 Tue

>>The main reason they keep the "under god" part in the
>>pledge is because it's part of america's history. The
>>country was built on christianity and god. So they're
>>holding on to a piece of history by keeping it in
>
>under god was put in in the 50's to prevent the
>country from looking communist. the original pledge
>did not have under god in it. The main reason we are
>keeping it is because people for some reason feel the
>need to pray to our country.

well as long as there's the 1st amendment, the pledge won't be changed, unless a group of god-hating militants on a mission overthrow the government happen to get "under god" out of the pledge. But that seems a little too much for 2 words when allyou have to do is NOT SAY IT.

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