03-10-2005, 05:32 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter
Published in 1891, the original states, 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Here are two more that were added later on - hardly evidence one way or the other for "This country was founded on a belief in a creator god ".
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
I did. That (and the pledge) was added later, so it says nothing about how the country was founded, just that there was a period of self-righteousness later on.
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Originally Posted by OnyxCougar
And what then, do you make of the repeated inclusion of the idea of a creator in nearly all of the big US documents and coins?
If they really wanted complete and utter separation of religion and government, why put it in all those documents? The pledge? The coins?
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Hopefully she won't bring up the pledge and coins anymore with regard to the founding of the country...
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