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Originally posted by leagleaze
It is absurd to pledge allegiance to a flag. A flag is a piece of cloth. The pledge should really read as follows.
I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Or perhaps, if we are to be honest, it should read as follows:
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for the majority.
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My kid's class had an assignment to rewrite the pledge to reflect what they believed was important about the United States.
The best reference to God I heard about was a reference to freedom of religion rather than to being "under God". But people came up with a lot of important things the pledge misses, ranging from family and community to Democracy (I don't think "liberty" covers Democracy).
Not a bad exercise. Maybe we should have a nationwide contest of school children every ten years to come up with a new pledge. I'd bet we get better material.
