Pueblo councilman wants to keep prayer before meetings

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Permalink Reply by Asa Watcher on October 2, 2012 at 2:01pm

      When the Government declares certain words to  be the  official Pledge of Allegiance, it means that to “officially” pledge one’s allegiance to one’s country, one acknowledges that our nation is “under god”.  To acknowledge that, of course,  means acknowledging the presumption of the  existence of god  . . . “officially”, of course.  There is also the glaring fact that our nation was established, exists, and operates under the Constitution.

     In addition, there is the “pledging to the flag” problem. Obviously, one is pledging to one’s country, so, why not simply say so?  In fact, there are some religious people that hold the belief that pledging to a symbol might verge on idolatry.

     I love my country, and I am more than willing to pledge my allegiance to it, but don’t make me, or anybody else, acknowledge the existence of something we don’t believe really exists, or commit ourselves to merely a symbol of the object of our real commitment.

      These examples seem to be such blatant violations of the establishment clause that there has to have been cases filed in court against this congressional over reach.

till then:

“I pledge allegiance to the Republic of the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”