"I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States"

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"I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

I've always wondered why the first thing it has people pledge allegiance to is a couple yards of fabric, that is so silly.

"I pledge allegiance to this arbitrary length of fabric, and, oh yeah, guess I'd better do that before I forget, and after that I pledge allegiance to the actual country of real actual people."

Weird.

So very, very, very, weird.

But I guess it may explain why so many in this country seem to value style & symbols far more than substance.

It’s a pretty strange tradition which feels kind of icky to me.

I live in Canada so we never did this kind of thing. But I went to a religious school so we had to say The Lord's Prayer before class each morning. Funny how adults make kids say this stuff while they're really too young to understand any of it. Like brainwashing...

According to a Robot Chicken sketch I once watched, making fun of the Pledge of Allegiance will make terrorists suddenly pop up and shoot at everything.

The Pledge was just part of the standard morning ritual as I went through school.  It is fair to point out that while pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth make no sense to some, it makes even less sense to pledge allegiance to a raving narcissistic despot with delusions of grandeur and distinctly paranoiac tendencies.

Interestingly, the phrase "under God" wasn't part of the Pledge of Allegiance until about 1956.

About the same time, "In God We Trust" was put into US currency.

I used to have to say the Pledge in school. I didn't mind it too much. We also have to sing the National Anthem in sporting events. It's a pain in the butt----but, otherwise, I don't mind too much.

I just wish we would leave religion out of it. Separation of Church and State is something Americans fought hard for during the Revolution and before.

A belief in God does not confer moral authority on anybody. Most kings in medieval times who drew and quartered people (a barbaric method of capital punishment) believed in God.

A more important oath to me is the Military Servicemember's Oath.

"I, <yourname>, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.  So help me God."

Please note that the UCMJ recognizes the servicemembers' obligation to refuse unlawful orders, too.

I sense she’s talking more about people like Hitler and Stalin.

Trump is certainly up there—but he’s just not as smart as the other two.