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Originally Posted by Tchocky
Reciting the pledge always seemed strange to me. When we moved back to Ireland nobody believed that it was a real thing.
It's strange for a nation that is supposed to pride itself on freedom of expression and religion-free government keeps a rote-learned expression of theistic nationalism.
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Thank you. See, I knew that, eventually, somebody was going to get it.
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Then again, what do I know. We had prayer in schools and that was bloody weird too
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They had that stateside too. In fact, the Regent's Prayer was said in New York City Public Schools up until 1962:
Almighty God,
we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee,
and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents,
our teachers and our country.