What do you think of Francis Bellamy
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| Sat, 03-13-2010 - 10:43am |
I was just wondering what everyone thought of Francis Bellamy and the ORIGINAL version of the pledge ?
Since many feel strongly that the words "Under God" MUST remain, what do you think of the author who ORIGINALLY wrote the pledge without the inclusion of "Under God" ?
Do you think the pledge as originally written was flawed for excluding God. Do you think of Francis Bellamy as some sort of flawed human (or perhaps a liberal) for writing a pledge without mention of God ?
With such vitriol directed at those who wish to see the pledge RESTORED to it's ORIGINAL form (or to an earlier version, it was changed a few times) what do you think of the ORIGINAL pledge and the author who penned the ORIGINAL version.
Do you think it's disrespectful of his work to edit it, or do you think it was disrespectful of him to write the pledge without mention of God ?
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I think it's totally ironic that a MINISTER wrote the pledge withOUT the word God, and POLITICIANs edited the phrase in.
And the courts have ruled that the phrase really isn't religions anyway (IOW, we don't really mean it) And I find it so ironic that supposedly religions types are celebrating this court affirmation of using the Lord's name in vain.
I am surprised that so many so called "Conservative Christians" are rallying around the cause of daily recitation by school children, of something originally written by a socialist. I guess they figure it was sufficiently "edited" by a group of politicians (under pressure from a Catholic Group) to pass muster.
I really don't understand how their hatred of "big government" fits into this. Isn't the pledge just big government dictating that every school day, at the beginning of the day students shall be pressured to ceremoniously recite these words, including a non-religious reference to the word "God".
Yea, a guy that claimed he was a minister, but preached politics every time he got in front of the pulpit, enough so that he got himself thrown out.
I will check Bellamy's grave and see if he is rolling over in it.
The left is claiming this is a form of religious indoctrination because of two words, 'under God' after it's been well-documented the entire rest of the pledge was intented to be used as a piece of indoctrination by the left to begin with.
The right inserted two words and co-opted the whole pledge for their own purposes, now the left is pouting and crying foul. I find that pretty darn funny.
So you admit, that the pledge is nothing more than a tool of indoctrination ?
Good reason to drop it all together then, right ?
Or is indoctrination OK, as long as it is right wingers, trying to create a theocracy ?
Why of course - then it's downright Amer-ikun!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eBLveddSfM&feature=related
Edited 3/18/2010 3:35 am ET by tinkerbell2010
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