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Some thoughts on the Pledge of Allegiance

This from my friend Howard Pearlstein:

I was asked about this and this is what I answered -- my objection not religious but semantic...
 
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 I am not an atheist and I never cared one way or the other about daily bible readings in elementary school.
My objection to the insertion of "Under God" has always been that it defeated the purpose of the Pledge.
Consider this, syntactically:
When you say: "One Nation, indivisible.." you're saying this is one indivisible nation. One whole coherent unit. That we are all one people bound by a common ideal.
When you say -- even worse, change the assertion that we are all, regardless of individual difference, all one people, when you change it to:  Read More 
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