Tornado Alley (PROG)

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BullNBear52 -- in school (decades ago) I always sat silent through the pledge, for precisely that reason -- nobody commands me to acknowledge that I am or this country (or anything else) is "under God" -- this is nothing new, and those challenging the "under God" (which was not in the original pledge, added only by religious-right types in the 1950s [in large part true also of the same on currency]) are right, absolutely correct, under the Constitution -- period

if we lived in a country where religious believers genuinely did generally understand and respect that their religious beliefs are not to be codified in law and enforced by the government, as is what is required by our Constitution, that might arguably be a de minimus kind of thing -- but we don't