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Edited by Valten X:
5/25/2017 2:44:05 AM
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Everyone should stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?
Firstly, it's very stupid when people don't stand up. I honestly thinks it's very disrespectful. I understand when someone feels like that the country isn't good right now so therefore they don't stand.
But when I look around. They are looking down on their -blam!-ing phones not giving a shit. Now that's when I consider it disrespectful.
We hear the announcements and say the pledge at the beginning of period 2. I have American History. Isn't it a bit ironic?
This generation is totally -blam!-ed. They don't respect their country [b] AT ALL[/b].
Also, flag burners should also be punished. I'm not talking about jailing them, but fining them.
ALSO PEOPLE WHO ARGUES AGAINST THE UNDER GOD IN THE PLEDGE.
HERE:
[quote]Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”.
Read it. Self explanatory. Signed by the FOUNDING FATHERS.
Here are more references to God found in the document:
Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”
Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World”
With a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence”
If you read the documents going back all the way to the first time when the founding fathers met. The documents states that congress opened up with prayer. The documents they wrote was heavily influenced by their religion.
Thomas Jefferson, "The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses."
"I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others."
John Adams:
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!
Sources:
Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Alberty Ellery Bergh, editor (Washington D.C.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), Vol. XII, p. 315, to James Fishback, September 27, 1809.
Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, editor (Boston: Grey & Bowen, 1830), Vol. III, p. 506, to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803.
John Adams, Works, Vol. II, pp. 6-7, diary entry for February 22, 1756.[/quote]
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[quote]Firstly, it's very stupid when people don't stand up.[/quote] i'm pretty sure we are both sitting on our lazy asses right now. downvoted
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1 ReplyWhat if your in a wheelchair?
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You see I do it because it's the only respectful thing to do. Should we be doing it? No there is absolutely no reason to have an old tradition kept in school like this as it adds nothing to the learning experience after 11 years of school.
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Edited by Snow: 6/1/2017 12:01:00 PMA few years ago during Remembrance Day(Veteran's day for Canada) some asshats were on their phones and laughing throughout the whole ceremony. That's like -blam!-ing around at hundreds of thousands of funerals at the same time, and war hero funerals at that. It's one thing to disrespect your country, it's another to disrespect those who gave their lives for it.
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1 ReplyYeah everyone should stand if they are able to. Its about being patriotic for your country Only a liberal piece of shit would disagree.
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1 ReplyThe pledge of allegiance is the most unconstitutional thing in America. The government is supposed to be by the people, of the people, and for the people. If we don't agree with what the government is doing or feel like it isn't defending our rights, it is our constitutional responsibility to change or replace it. I'll stand during the pledge to respect our troops and not get people triggered for no reason, but I'm not going to say the pledge because it's simply un-American.
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4 RepliesI stand, but that's the extent of it. It's pretty -blam!-ed to force kids to do anything in school. 13 years of being forced to do the pledge of allegiance, it starts to come off more like North Koreans saluting a picture of Kim Jong Un that is held in every room. And who knows, maybe I'll stop standing one day.
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5 RepliesEdited by Man Torpedo FTW: 5/28/2017 9:13:45 PMIf we are truly a free sovereign nation, we should be able to do whatever the -blam!- we want as long as it doesn't directly harm anyone else.
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15 RepliesYou Americans lol. Being born to something doesn't mean you need to respect it. Plus why does standing up and clutching your nipple mean anything more than playing angry birds or some shit, both are wastes of time and accomplish nothing. Also flag burning should be perfectly legal, if you buy the flag it is your property and you can do what you want with it
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hhmmm..no multiculturalism 🗽 or special groups ♿️ depicted? interesting................
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1 ReplyAmerica sucks anyway
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You stand for the flag. You may not agree with all that's going on in the country but you would agree living here is a hell of a lot better than some starving African country or north Korea.
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Yes the citizens should but shouldn't be forced to do so.
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2 RepliesIs a person a walking contradiction if they respect the pledge but do not believe in the Christian god?
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1 ReplyWho cares?
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Some people don't seem to understand. The founding fathers built the country on Christian ideals because the religion has some good stuff at its core. Respect, no senseless killing/violence, etc.
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5 RepliesEdited by Chastice: 5/28/2017 7:25:39 PMSo many edgy millennials with zero respect... I could say that it's because of what that flag stands for that you have what you have and that if you want to flex your freedom muscles, there are more productive ways than choosing not to do something so incredibly basic. Oh, some of you excrement-flinging tree dwellers aren't millennials? Congratulations. If I had a cookie, you'd be the recipient. You get a cookie. And you get a cookie! Everyone gets a cookie! +1
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17 RepliesI stand to be polite and teachers will freak if you don't, but I am not very patriotic.
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1 ReplyI haven't stood for the Pledge in nearly three years. Here are the reasons why: 1. The "one nation, under God" is completely false. America is based on the principle of religious freedom, and thusly, there are many religions being practiced therein. 2. Going off of the last point, the "under God, indivisible", instantly divides the country. 3. The words "under God" weren't in the original version. They were added in during the Cold War to separate America from "those godless commies". 4. "Liberty and Justice for all" is also completely false. Discrimination still runs rampant across the United States (i.e. atheists can't run for office in seven states). The Pledge of Allegiance, ironically, is pledging AGAINST allegiance. It describes the opposite of what the United States of America stands for, not to mention it is riddled with inaccuracies.
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14 RepliesI havent done the allegiance since... what.. 3rd grade? This isnt germany little Schutzstaffel
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You dont have to stand nor should anyone be forced too... but not standing reveals one to be a asshole to everyone else.
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I follow no one I will never bow before someone else's banner.
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I declare that "Under God" shall now become "Under the Noodly Appendage, the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster." It doesn't really roll off the tounge as much, but "Under God" doesn't either.
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I declare that "Under God" shall now become "Under the Noodly Appendage, the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster." It doesn't really roll off the tongue as much, but "Under God" doesn't either.
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1 ReplyAs the son of someone in the military I always stand
