How can this really happen "by accident"? And if it's not by accident, what is the motivation or reason behind it.
NBC omits "Under God" during pledge...
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How can this really happen "by accident"? And if it's not by accident, what is the motivation or reason behind it.
NBC omits "Under God" during pledge...
The pledge of allegiance originally did not have the phrase "under God". It was added later in 1954.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Earl
This phrase was added in response to Communism.
The pledge of allegiance was drafted in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Christian Socialist.
The pledge of allegiance is the descendant of Britain's oath of allegiance.
If an individual is self-directed and self-determined ...
If an individual avoids pledging and assuming the charges imposed by others ...
Why would such an individual want to recite any pledges or oaths of allegiance?
Furthermore, allegiances are given to natural persons in the capacity of a lord or king. If there is lord or king to give allegiance to, why recite any pledge or oath of allegiance?
The irony of the pledge of allegiance is the person who bellows the loudest against Socialism would be he first to recite a pledge crafted by a Christian Socialist.
Maybe because they don't know the history shikamaru .
Some snips on the subject .
Originally composed by Baptist minister Francis Julius Bellamy in 1892 . Formally adopted by Congress as the national pledge in 1942 , the Pledge has been modified four times since its composition, with the most recent change adding the words "under God" in 1954.
As a Christian Socialist Bellamy Promoted the rights of working people and the equal distribution of economic resources .
However , he also wrote "[a] democracy like ours cannot afford to throw itself open to the world where every man is a lawmaker, every dull-witted or fanatical immigrant admitted to our citizenship is a bane to the commonwealth; where all classes of society merge insensibly into one another.”
No, I understand the pledge part and why I don't. :)
I was just curious why NBC would modify the national pledge as it was adopted and what would be their motivation would be for doing so. Another fellow mentioned perhaps to appease the crowds that don't think religion belong in politics (separation of state, blah) -- albeit this was a golf event. I just thought it curious.
Stir / pander to the natives :).Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Earl