MITCH ALBOM: Fighting over the pledge is waste of time
Few people know its history. You ask the average American who wrote it, he'll tell you George Washington.
...the pledge itself was written in the 1890s, for a magazine, by a Baptist minister who saw no reason to insert anything about God.
Or that the words "under God" were added by Congress, at the behest of a Michigan senator and representative, only 50 years ago, as an attack on communism, which it perceived as godless. Those were the days, remember, when humiliating movie makers in front of Sen. Joe McCarthy made some Americans feel safer.
We're embarrassed by that era now, because we see it for what it was. We are not so clear on the pledge. We do not see the pledge for what it is. "we'll spend more time fighting over this than actually getting our kids educated."
posted by Cyndy
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