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Interesting. I just learned the pledge was invented by a Christian socialist in the late 1800s.
He blended left wing economics with Christianity.
And what does that have to do with it? Good grief.
Look - if you don't like how things are done in America get the fuck out of it. I'm getting tired of having to suffer a fool.
It’s just interesting that the pledge of allegiance is written by a socialist. That’s not interesting to you?
This thread made me look up the origin.
Actually, Bellamy wrote part of it. It's been amended a couple of times.
Bellamy was a Baptist minister, who at the time was a Christian socialist, a bit different than what the word socialist is taken to mean today. The Pledge was written in response to the adoption of Columbus Day, a holiday Bellamy had campaigned for (poor sod probably didn't know about Columbus enslaving all those charming native people he discivered).
As usual, history without context is useless. Rememeber, The Pledge was written within the lifetime of many of the combatants of the Civil War, a lot whom did not care a lot for the Union flag at one time. It was first recited by children and was seen as a unifying mechanism for Americans.
It still is.
