How did things change so much?

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The pledge was introduced, from what I understand, to supplant the push for prayer in school. It turned out it was good. Its really a form of programming, but pretty much everything is programming for a kid.

 

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855–1931), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist,^[3] and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850–1898). The original "Pledge of Allegiance" was published in the September 8 issue of the popular children's magazine The Youth's Companion as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. The event was conceived and promoted by James B. Upham, a marketer for the magazine, as a campaign to instill the idea of American nationalism by selling flags to public schools and magazines to students.^[4][5][6][7] According to author Margarette S. Miller this was in line with Upham's vision which he "would often say to his wife: 'Mary, if I can instill into the minds of our American youth a love for their country and the principles on which it was founded, and create in them an ambition to carry on with the ideals which the early founders wrote into the Constitution, I shall not have lived in vain.'"^[8]

 

10 seconds on wiki, how much trouble was that?

 

 

Now do you know these useful idiots were the forerunners of the Progressive movement? Wanna guess where that lead?

Children could and were expelled from school for refusing to recite the pledge for religious reasons (idolatry) until the 1940s.

 

Hows that for the founders beliefs?

 

And this is just one little very well documented truth no one seeks out unless challenged.

Doesn't bode well for the larger more complex ones does it?