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Old 07-01-2005, 08:03 AM
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Default The history of the Pledge of Alligience!!

Did you know;

The Pledge is based on the ideals of socialism? Does Rush Limbaugh and Shawn Hannity, know this???

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Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. In his Pledge, he is expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (188 and Equality (1897).
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Default if we must be indoctrinated as children...

...then I prefer Bellamy's original; 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'
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It should be changed back to its original, AUTHENTIC, form.
It makes alot more sense.
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I think it should be done away with. I always had a problem as a kid makin a pledge to a flag.
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I think it should be done away with. I always had a problem as a kid makin a pledge to a flag.
My own view, precisely. Well said!
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Default No one nation deserves my allegience

unless it supports the cause of humanity as a whole.
I don't see the U.S. doing that very well...
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