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Oct. 5th, 2005 01:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotQuoting myself, because of something another LJ user said:
"On the Pledge of Allegiance: I'll try to remember all that I have 'said' in previous mentions of the subject...
"1) The idea of the Pledge in the first place was to indoctrinate the young of our nation into Federalist sentiment as opposed to state or region or RACE. It came out of the Reconstruction, as a way of reunification through ritualized socialization. The under God phrase was inserted in the 1950s as a response to the preceived threat from Communism. So I find it horribly ironic that many of the defenders of the under God phrase are in fact anti-Federalists and racists.
"2) In many Protestant churches, Sunday School children are made not only to Pledge to the American flag, but to the flag of their sect or their sect's youth organization. I consider this practice to be a method towards forced fealty rather than instilling or recognizing faith.
"3) Many of the radical Protestant faiths were forced out of Europe to America because their RELIGION forbid them from making loyalty oaths to the king. And these radical sects are the ones that eventually formed the Evangelical movement here. So I consider their attempts to enforce a fealty to God in secular America particularly hypocritical."
PS: In honor ofthe_gneech,
--Dr. Israel Khang
"On the Pledge of Allegiance: I'll try to remember all that I have 'said' in previous mentions of the subject...
"1) The idea of the Pledge in the first place was to indoctrinate the young of our nation into Federalist sentiment as opposed to state or region or RACE. It came out of the Reconstruction, as a way of reunification through ritualized socialization. The under God phrase was inserted in the 1950s as a response to the preceived threat from Communism. So I find it horribly ironic that many of the defenders of the under God phrase are in fact anti-Federalists and racists.
"2) In many Protestant churches, Sunday School children are made not only to Pledge to the American flag, but to the flag of their sect or their sect's youth organization. I consider this practice to be a method towards forced fealty rather than instilling or recognizing faith.
"3) Many of the radical Protestant faiths were forced out of Europe to America because their RELIGION forbid them from making loyalty oaths to the king. And these radical sects are the ones that eventually formed the Evangelical movement here. So I consider their attempts to enforce a fealty to God in secular America particularly hypocritical."
PS: In honor of
the_gneech,--Dr. Israel Khang
