God in the Pledge of AllegianceThe Internet Zone of Chuck Staub
There has recently been complaints about having children recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools because it has the words "one nation under god" in it. It was recently ruled so in one of our courts. Let us hope that we are indeed a nation under god. Try taking god out of all our government documents and you will see an uproar that will be heard across the land, from coast to coast. Let us hope that our country is under gods guidance and that we show respect to god in our laws of the land. Each person can believe in whatever god they wish. That is not the point. There is a god and he may be called by many names. Take god out of the United States government and our enemies have won. We will be infidels, and they will have a right to call us "the damned United States" because without god, we will truly be damned as a nation.Pledge of Allegiance
I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.Preamble
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.Our United States Supreme Court is interpreting our United States Constitution autonomously from our Preamble. The Preamble is a sentence that defines the intent of the delegates of the Philadelphia Convention for ratifying our United States Constitution. Observe clearly that our Preamble states the "blessings of liberty". The terminology "blessings" is a spiritual term that can only connotate the meaning that liberty is a gift of God. As such, it is reprehensible that any Supreme Court Justice could lawfully construe that the Founding Fathers would have intended that the use of the word God in our Pledge of Allegiance could pose any threat to our civil liberties. The First Amendment is to estop Congress from passing any law that may jeopardize the likelihood of Church and State joining powers to pursue religious persecution. Congress has made laws that do violate the Separation of Church and State which the Supreme Court has yet to strike down. Civilians have been imprisoned as a result of said lawmaking.For Example:Freedom of assembly is protected for each group in our Union. The Church exercises its freedom of assembly to assemble any day and/or hour of the week without the threat of police halting its assembly. Yet, certain State lawmakers have passed State laws that prohibit civilians to purchase alcoholic beverages during Sunday morning hours in respect to the general time period associated with Christian and/or Catholic religious services. The Church is a tax exempt nonprofit charitable institution. Yet, State lawmakers and/or police protect the freedom of assembly of the Church and deny the equality of treatment for non church going civilians to assemble any day and/or hour of the week to enjoy his or her freedom. Would it be fair for State lawmakers to pass laws to deny the Church to assemble on Saturday evening to avoid disturbing the business of night clubs, juke joints, bars etc. that pay taxes?