• jaschen@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Fiest time I had to do the pledge, I just got to America from Taiwan and I honestly thought the pledge was a Christian/religion thing because of the “…under god” thing. So I told my teacher that my family is Buddhist and can’t do the pledge.

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      4 days ago

      Fun fact! “Fun”, actually.

      Under God wasn’t in the original version. It wasn’t added until 1954 because they didn’t to be like communist countries and be seen as a secular government.

      Good old fashion forcing religion on your citizens.