Yep.

That’s a no brainer.

The separation of church and state is the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state.

If you value freedom, including religious freedom, you should support the separation of Church & State.

The government should have no involvement in your religion as they should have no involvement in your sex life. So long as you abide by the secular laws of the land.

If your religious practice breaks the law, you go to jail. If you cannot live with that, you must leave the nation. Immigrate to a theocracy, perhaps.

Some American Christians are intolerant.

The kind constantly quoting the Pledge of Allegiance.

The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of fealty to the federal flag and the republic of the United States of America, originally composed by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942.

The official name of The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1945. The last change in language came on Flag Day 1954 when the words “under God” were added.

Here’s the original version (1892) of the start of the pledge:

“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

I got on to this topic after seeing right wing Americans irritated and hateful over this incident from Jan 2013.

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A school Cultural club read the Pledge of Allegiance in different languages, one of them Arabic. In that one replacing “God” with “Allah”.

To me the Pledge is just words on paper. Not sacred. Even less a sacred cow than the U.S. Constitution.

Here’s the funniest commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance I’ve seen.

The Whitest Kids U’ Know – Pledge of Allegiance

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