One Nation "Under God"

[Takeda Shingen]

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.

Thank you. See, I knew that, eventually, somebody was going to get it.

Then again, what do I know. We had prayer in schools and that was bloody weird too

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.