..."Under God" from the Pledge? I know there are many reasons that conservatives call liberals anti-religious or even sometimes call them anti-christianity. But why is this one?
The pledge, traditionally, did not use the words "Under God." and had those words been in the pledge it originally it is unclear how our founders, especially Jefferson and Adams, would have reacted to it. I also recognize, for the record, they weren't around to see it become the official pledge of the nation either and therefore their reaction to it without those two words is unclear."Under God" wasn't even put in the pledge of alliegance until 1954.
And if we start going into the fact that they were "congressionally approved" then we open up all sorts of political debates and it can also be argued that it isn't wrong to challenge congressionally approved acts.
So what is the issue? Perhaps Liberals are just traditionalists masquarading as agents of change?
@Shovel Ready- Nice straw-man but it has nothing to do with my question which you have failed to answer. I simpled asked why conservatives use this to call Liberals anti-religious. I never said anything about the morality of it. That's a whole other argument.
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