I always found it amazing how many people *DON'T* know that the "under God" was a later add-on to the Pledge. Or, for that matter, that the pledge was NOT written by the founding fathers, possibly soon after the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Way Back in the Day (circa 1993 CE), I was in a high school free-for-all debate on the topic of gays in the military and I brought up that little bit about the guarantees of Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness in the DoI. The counterpoint was "under God" in the pledge. I pointed out that, unlike the Declaration, the Pledge was NOT a founding article of our government, that it was written a century AFTER the Declaration and the Constitution, was written by a newspaper editor with nothing better to do that day, and that the "under God" was a relatively recent addition that the writer never intended. And everyone in the class (except the two who were already arguing on my side) called BS on me. I finally had to appeal to Authority (something I am loathe to do) to back me up and even *HE* seemed hesitant.
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Way Back in the Day (circa 1993 CE), I was in a high school free-for-all debate on the topic of gays in the military and I brought up that little bit about the guarantees of Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness in the DoI. The counterpoint was "under God" in the pledge. I pointed out that, unlike the Declaration, the Pledge was NOT a founding article of our government, that it was written a century AFTER the Declaration and the Constitution, was written by a newspaper editor with nothing better to do that day, and that the "under God" was a relatively recent addition that the writer never intended. And everyone in the class (except the two who were already arguing on my side) called BS on me. I finally had to appeal to Authority (something I am loathe to do) to back me up and even *HE* seemed hesitant.
Uneducated yits.