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The weirdest thing about American culture (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 35 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Yeah it's gotta be the daily allegiance to the flag -thing for me. That shit hella weird.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I stopped saying the whole pledge in kindergarten. Didn't seem right to pledge to a god I didn't believe in.

    Pretty much stopped saying it all together after 9/11

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

    "I pledge allegiance to the the Flag of the United States..."

    Unless you think the flag is a god, you're not pledging to a god, you're pledging to a piece of fabric, or to the design printed on that fabric. Which, honestly, is a lot weirder. How can one have allegiance to a flag? What about the opposite, is it possible to be disloyal to a flag?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

    ...for which it stands, one nation, under god...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Huh, just checked the text and I was surprised to find that the god part was only added in 1954.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, god is mentioned as an additional clause, but you're pledging to the flag.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yes... Pledging allegiance... To a flag.... Representing a Republic... That exists by/for god...

    I mean, I didn't look into it that much at first, I was in kindergarten FFS, but I remember thinking it was funny that God was mentioned in the pledge, and how he was also mentioned in the prayers at Grandma's church, and I thought I shouldn't lie and say the "under god" part since I didn't believe.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    @kadotux @cm0002 @Bytemeister @merc Having read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as a kid (they were required reading in school), it seems to me that the flag should be pledging allegiance to us, not the other way around.

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