Jaime
15th September 2005, 11:26
The "pledge" is unconstitutional and unconscionable.
1) We are not subjects but [supposedly] free citizens. We owe no loyalty/allegiance to a feudal lord.
2) Compulsory education laws forces most people to attend government schools and, therefore, forces the children to recite something that they do not understand. It is purely propaganda and indoctrination. An indoctrination formulated by a socialist who believed in the all powerful central government.
3) How many times must it be recited until it sticks?
4) I did some research a few years ago on loyalty oaths (not oaths of office). I was not able to find references of pledges of allegiance or loyalty oaths until Lincoln. How come the Founding Fathers did not institute a “pledge?” For all I have read, the Founding Fathers would have gagged at the thought of forcing any citizen to recite a pledge of allegiance.
5) How can anybody recite a pledge that says “indivisible?” Where in the uS Constitution does it says that the central government has the authority to stop a State from leaving the voluntary Union?
6) This is directed at my fellow Christians: A defense of the “pledge” is made in that “God” is not defined and it could be Buddha, Allah (as in the Muslim’s conception of God), Jesus, Hari Krishna, etc. An object, and in this case a word, that incorporates such a range of meanings, to whose/their authority is appealed in making a pledge/oath is an idol. The God of the pledge is an idol and a violation of the 1st and 2nd Commandments.
1) We are not subjects but [supposedly] free citizens. We owe no loyalty/allegiance to a feudal lord.
2) Compulsory education laws forces most people to attend government schools and, therefore, forces the children to recite something that they do not understand. It is purely propaganda and indoctrination. An indoctrination formulated by a socialist who believed in the all powerful central government.
3) How many times must it be recited until it sticks?
4) I did some research a few years ago on loyalty oaths (not oaths of office). I was not able to find references of pledges of allegiance or loyalty oaths until Lincoln. How come the Founding Fathers did not institute a “pledge?” For all I have read, the Founding Fathers would have gagged at the thought of forcing any citizen to recite a pledge of allegiance.
5) How can anybody recite a pledge that says “indivisible?” Where in the uS Constitution does it says that the central government has the authority to stop a State from leaving the voluntary Union?
6) This is directed at my fellow Christians: A defense of the “pledge” is made in that “God” is not defined and it could be Buddha, Allah (as in the Muslim’s conception of God), Jesus, Hari Krishna, etc. An object, and in this case a word, that incorporates such a range of meanings, to whose/their authority is appealed in making a pledge/oath is an idol. The God of the pledge is an idol and a violation of the 1st and 2nd Commandments.