This episode makes me want to ask why do so many xians always proclaim that America was founded as a xian nation by xians when exactly the opposite is true? When I learned American history I was taught that the Founding Fathers founded our nation with a strong wall between church and state, for the protection of both, because they had seen the negative impact on liberty from state mandated religion in Europe. I learned that European immigrants saw America as a way to escape religious persecution back home. What history books are xians reading where a fantasy group of evangelical xian Founding Fathers established a state church which was a branch of the government? Why don’t they get challenged more when they revise history?

I wonder if this will make it on Faux News.

Bill O’Reilly was already “outraged” over this story this past Friday night.
Isn’t it about time for him to start pissing and moaning about the non existent “War on Xmas”? It seems to have become his own one man crusade these past couple years.

If any of you have kids in public schools who are expected to recite the pledge with the words “under god” in it please sit them down and talk about their options.

That is great advice. I have instructed my children that if ‘they’ feel uncomfortable saying the “unter Gott” part, they need only remain silent for that brief moment, and continue on with the rest of the pledge.

When they get older, maybe they will stand out in the hall whenever the pledge is said. I don’t know. It will be up to them. I will not push them one way or the other. I will only support them, whatever they do.

Right now, they are both in a class with less than 20 students, and at their age, they would be ostracized without a doubt. Besides, I really have no problem with the secular part of the pledge.