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In reply to the discussion: When did you learn, The Pledge of Allegiance....? [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)18. My bad wording. The Founders weren't thinking specifically about American Catholics, but about...
the history of religious warfare (or, more often, religion used as a cover for wars of expansion and revolution) that they were all too familiar with. The early population was loaded with European expats escaping religious persecution. They all knew about Muslim incursions in to Europe and the wars of the Reformation, including the Thirty Years War. This was a new world, and those old problems need not be brought into it.
A state religion, no matter which one, is simply cause for tension and often war.
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That was in 1954, and I suspect the nuns were worried that it wasn't Catholic Jesus they meant...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#7
Me too-- I remember a certain amount of screaming from Jews and Catholics in NYC at the time...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#11
No. And I think you are assuming something about the nuns that isn't true.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Sep 2020
#10
My bad wording. The Founders weren't thinking specifically about American Catholics, but about...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#18
Yeah, but coins had it since the Civil War and we eventually put it everywhere thanks to ...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#22
True enough. Just one less reason for it, and it does reduce internal strife a little.
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2020
#26
Before I started kindergarten in 1952. I had a plaque with the old wording on it.
rzemanfl
Sep 2020
#15
I never understood pledging allegiance to the flag. It's a piece of colored cloth, right?
Klaralven
Sep 2020
#29
First or second grade? My nieces kids are here and they say they learned in Kindergarten
lettucebe
Sep 2020
#31