I have to take issue with ideas of ignorance about our U.S. flag.
Our U.S. flag is a 'standard'. We as Christians are not to worship the flag, not that we would want to. But we are to respect it and the standard it represents.
Num 1:52
52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
(KJV)
Isa 49:22
22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up Mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up My standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
(KJV)
The idea of a flag ("standard") is very Biblical. It serves as a symbol.
Our U.S. flag stands for the foundation of 13 original colonies, and 50 states. It also stands for something very Biblical involving prophecy about God's people.
The number 50 is the Biblical number for Jubilee (Leviticus 25). The 50th year was to be a Jubilee in Israel, and liberty was to be proclaimed throughout the land. Those who had debts or had sold themselves into slavery were released of their debts and set at liberty. Lands were returned to their original family owners.
The whole idea of Jubliee is about freedom. Freedom from bondage to other men, whether debts or slavery. It was a chance to start anew. It prevented the creating of social classes and struggles from it.
The 13 bars on the flag also represents something very important in Bible prophecy dealing with God's people and Salvation to the Gentiles.
So... that's what our U.S. standard is really about. It is a 'standard' about FREEDOM, and especially represents all those who have died in keeping The United States of America free, just so peoples from other nations who come here can also experience FREEDOM that God wants His people to enjoy. Not only that, but also many U.S. citizens have sacrificed their lives for OTHER countries and peoples so they might also enjoy God's liberty and freedom in their 'own' countries! (Your welcome Germany; your welcome Japan; your welcome Philippines; your welcome Hati; your welcome Britain; your welcome Italy; your welcome France and thank you France for helping us; your welcome Belguim; your welcome Netherlands; your welcome Poland; your welcome South Korea; your welcome Thailand; your welcome Taiwan; and any others I may have forgotten).
Though evil men in the U.S. try to prevent that freedom which God established among His people in the original 13 Colonies of America, as a whole the U.S. is still one of the most free nations on earth, if not the most free. That's why so many of the nations almost die trying to get in.
That's what the Standard of The United States of America represents as a symbol.