Gotta love this History textbook that my wife is reading for her history class...
Did you know that God wasn't a part of the Pledge of Allegiance or US currency until the fifties? In the same ruling, "Under God" was added to the Pledge and "In God We Trust" to the money. Is it because we became a more religious country as a whole? The division of the country around the Scopes Monkey trial at around this time tells me that we weren't. No, it was a move to improve the image of the US to make us seem more morally superior to the world. We needed to be superior to the Communists...we needed people to like us and value us more, so Communism would not spread further.
I don't really find myself on either side of the argument about under God in the pledge. While I understand the rights of our citizens to be fully agnostic, it is clear that, with the way things are going right now, it would be nice to believe that we have God on our side, even if it's not true. The world is going to hell in a handbasket and I feel like our country is operating the pulleys these days.
Did you know that God wasn't a part of the Pledge of Allegiance or US currency until the fifties? In the same ruling, "Under God" was added to the Pledge and "In God We Trust" to the money. Is it because we became a more religious country as a whole? The division of the country around the Scopes Monkey trial at around this time tells me that we weren't. No, it was a move to improve the image of the US to make us seem more morally superior to the world. We needed to be superior to the Communists...we needed people to like us and value us more, so Communism would not spread further.
I don't really find myself on either side of the argument about under God in the pledge. While I understand the rights of our citizens to be fully agnostic, it is clear that, with the way things are going right now, it would be nice to believe that we have God on our side, even if it's not true. The world is going to hell in a handbasket and I feel like our country is operating the pulleys these days.
 | Currently listening: Healthy In Paranoid Times By Our Lady Peace Release date: 30 August, 2005 |
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