Getting them young
Let’s ask an honest question: does a typical 4 year-old understand what a pledge means? Does a 4 year-old understand allegiance, indivisibility, liberty a...
Category: Pledge of Allegiance
Focusing on the flag
Speak to virtually any atheist in the United States and they’ll tell you that they don’t support the pledge of allegiance and find it to be a violat...
Putting nationalism ahead of freedom and the Constitution
For a moment think about how the pledge of allegiance is typically recited. Think back to when you recited it in school. Was it with any kind of patriotic enthu...
Declaring my allegiance
One sentiment that pisses me off to no end, and reached a head yesterday afternoon, can be summarized as this: If you aren’t willing to recite the pledge ...
Love it or leave it
It seems according to some conservatives that if you don’t like the pledge of allegiance, then in actuality you don’t like the United States and are...
Get rid of the pledge of allegiance
With the new year, I think it’s time to lead a different kind of attack on the Pledge of Allegiance, a topic on which I’ve already twice written. I ...
Further commentary on the pledge of allegiance
If you threaten to take the words “under God” out of the pledge of allegiance, you’re a secular, anti-American lunatic. Or so the Christian ri...
Patriotic idolatry
Every nation on this planet has a flag, as do the individual States and territories of the United States of America. Originally written in 1892 by Francis Bella...