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How the Pledge of Allegiance Went from Marketing Ploy to Classroom Staple
- jleyank 5y agoDrop the “under God” addition from the 50’s and it would do better…
- mgh2 5y agoWhy? It is a big percentage of American foundational values.
- krapp 5y agoThe United States is not a Christian theocracy. Values aside, conflating God with the state is inappropriate for any modern society. We are not one nation under God, we are one nation under secular law.
- mgh2 5y agoOf course not, that is dangerous; separation of church and state. Initial settlers were the majority Puritans fleeing religious persecution from theocracy states, might as well represent them.
- krapp 5y ago>Initial settlers were the majority Puritans fleeing religious persecution from theocracy states, might as well represent them. They are represented, like everyone else, by their representatives in government. I would even argue they're over-represented, with rural voters (who tend to skew religious) having outsized influence over urban voters, despite the latter being the majority of the population. We don't also need to have schoolchildren invoke the name of their God in a loyalty oath to the state every day. That isn't representation, it's indoctrination, normalizing the premise that Christians enjoy a special status in American society that everyone needs to acknowledge.
- mgh2 5y agoWhat about "in God we trust" in the dollar bill?