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[quote=boorite][quote][quote]In any case, I wouldn't call it "censorship" to insist that it is not the role of State-employed agents to lead children in more or less compulsory religious pledges. I'd say it's the opposite of censorship in spirit, in that such a policy is essential to free thought. I'll admit there is such a thing as PC "censorship," but this isn't an example of it.[/quote] ignoring the obvious that no compulsory statement is in the spirit of free thought, it's definitely a flavor of censorship. the entire pledge is compulsory yet one part gets removed because of the desire to separate church and state. it facilitates that goal, but that doesn't mean it isn't using censhorship to do so. to think that it isn't, you'd almost have to adopt a deist attitude yourself since it presupposes there to be something special about the word thy 'God'.[/quote] Did you mean [i]theist?[/i] To determine what does and doesn't go in the country's Pledge of Allegiance isn't censorship any more than determining what does and doesn't go in the country's national anthem. Nobody is telling teachers or schoolchildren that they can't stand up on a park bench and declare that this is one nation under God. They are saying that statements of religious belief do not belong in official government proclamations. But you bring up an excellent point, which is that compelling [i]anyone[/i] to pledge allegiance to anything smacks of totalitarianism. I agree. So get the damn Pledge out of schools. What are we afraid if? Kids will join al Qaeda if we don't make them recite this dumb thing? Still, the country needs a Pledge, if only for military recruits and naturalized citizens. And that Pledge shouldn't make you say anything about religion. People can say this is God's country all they want, but the government has no business doing so.[/quote]
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