Pledge of Allegiance

**blaster668** · October 26th, 2009, 06:04 AM

**schr8er2000** · October 26th, 2009, 07:10 AM

I heard this a couple of years ago, and found it "online" and its now saved in my files.... but this is the first time I saw the video...

Now I will have that in there too....

THANK YOU......

P.S. Send it to all the reps and senators... then MAYBE they will understand that "UNDER GOD" is part of it.....

**mjfletcher** · October 26th, 2009, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by schr8er2000

I heard this a couple of years ago, and found it "online" and its now saved in my files.... but this is the first time I saw the video...

Now I will have that in there too....

THANK YOU......

P.S. Send it to all the reps and senators... then MAYBE they will understand that "UNDER GOD" is part of it.....

Under God wasn't always a part of it, it was a christian organization that had enough political sway that got it added.

http://oldtimeislands.org/pledge/pledge.htm

Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. He was a Christian Socialist. In his Pledge, he is expressing the ideas of his first cousin, Edward Bellamy, author of the American socialist utopian novels, Looking Backward (1888) and Equality (1897).

His original Pledge read as follows: 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to*) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'

In 1923 and 1924 the National Flag Conference, under the 'leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge's words, 'my Flag,' to 'the Flag of the United States of America.' Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored.

In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer.

Bellamy's granddaughter said he also would have resented this second change. He had been pressured into leaving his church in 1891 because of his socialist sermons. In his retirement in Florida, he stopped attending church because he disliked the racial bigotry he found there....

**bob308** · October 26th, 2009, 04:11 PM

i went to a bike event. they had us pledge allegiance. but they said that we would leave off the under god part. guess what when it came to the under god we did not leave it off but did say it louader.