{"id":266,"date":"2002-07-01T15:04:43","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T12:38:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T16:38:04","slug":"on-the-pledge-of-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/on-the-pledge-of-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Pledge of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>I used to think that the &#8216;under god&#8217; in the pledge was not a big deal.  That it was simply ceremonial.  I also used to think that about the &#8216;in god we trust&#8217; on money and the references in various other places.<\/p>\n<p>Now, unlike a lot of people, I actually did know that these things were implemented after the fact.  That they were not the intentions of our founding fathers.  But our society has become so secular, that I figured most people just considered them a tradition.  Like the Charlie Brown Christmas special.  It&#8217;s not Christian propaganda, it&#8217;s just a cartoon.   But ha ha, how wrong I was! The level of rage and venom that spewed forth from virtually every corner after the decision in California showed me how naive I was to think that anything mentioning god could be a mere symbol or tradition.  Hell no! It&#8217;s blasphemy to object to it, or to realize that it was inserted for reasons which were absolutely and without a doubt unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>And this, folks, is the reason why religion is NOT allowed in our public schools.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think that the &#8216;under god&#8217; in the pledge was not a big deal. That it was simply ceremonial. I also used to think that about the &#8216;in god we trust&#8217; on money and the references in various other places. Now, unlike a lot of people, I actually did know that these things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}