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New Pledge of Allegiance!
Keep this going.. It's really a good one.



Since the Pledge of Allegiance and
The Lord's Prayer are not allowed in most public schools anymore
Because the word "God" is mentioned....
A kid in Arizona wrote the attached
NEW School prayer.
I liked it....


Now I sit me down in school

Where praying is against the rule

For this great nation under God

Finds mention of Him very odd.






If Scripture now the class recites,

It violates the Bill of Rights.

And anytime my head I bow

Becomes a Federal matter now.




Our hair can be purple, orange or green,

That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.

The law is specific, the law is precise.

Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.




For praying in a public hall

Might offend someone with no faith at all.

In silence alone we must meditate,

God's name is prohibited by the state.




We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,

And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.

They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.

To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,

And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.

It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,

We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.




We can get our condoms and birth controls,

Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.

But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,

No word of God must reach this crowd.




It's scary here I must confess,

When chaos reigns the school's a mess.

So, Lord, this silent plea I make:

Should I be shot; My soul please take!

Amen



If you aren't ashamed to do this,

please pass this on.


Jesus said,

"If you are ashamed of me,

I will be ashamed of you before my Father."





Not ashamed. Passing this on

now, this is an extremely bad one, first of all, i looked up the verse on the end on google, and it just gave links to other chain letter, so i looked it up at bible.com, and i looked it up multiple times, with and without quotations and in all the english forms of the bible they had, and it doesn't exist. secondly, i don't know where this kid goes to school, but most public schools in america, if not all, say the pledge, at my school they get offended if you don't. now i put this in the debate section because it might get controversial, and heres why: i support taking out under god in the pledge, and the reason why is for 2 reasons. i believe in god, but not everyone does, and that is because god gave people the choice. if you read mere christianity by C.L. Lewis (who is one of the greatest writers ever), talked about how god gave people a choice, that because if we didn't have choice than everyone would act like robots, and i think that people should have the choice. but that still doesn't make it wrong, so heres my next point. god, like i said gave us a choice, and america, the founding fathers, made the choice to allow people to have freedom of religion, and putting under god in the pledge takes that away to people who don't believe or worship god. now why would i defend that, it all goes back to the first part, god gave us a choice to follow him or not. but that gets off the point, i neither believe this post is any good, or that under god should be in the pledge. now if this all seems confusing all i am saying, i believe in god, and that god gave us choices, and that these choices are to be only governed by god. i expect to get alot of negative feed back from people about what i said, so please try to see that i am not trying to critisize god. and also, i ask that noone pull the are you ashamed of god card. this passage shows why that would be wrong:

5"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9"This, then, is how you should pray:
" 'Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
11Give us today our daily bread.
12Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.[a]' 14For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

what it is saying is not to brag about god, or be hypocritical about him or praise him to show off, and that is why i usually skip under god in the pledge, but after we say the pledge in my head so noone can hear me, i say the lords prayer, which is also in that verse, i don't draw attention to myself, sometimes i close my eyes, sometimes i look down, but i never let anyone know what i am doing. so please critisize, i am ready to be butchered

CORRECTION: I am sorry, but i made a mistake and someone did find that verse, but in my defense, the verse was not worded correctly in the post and the originial poster of the chain should have atleast found the right words

Yeah I think I kinda agree. It should be people's choice. You can't just go around telling the athiests, witches, pagans, etc. to believe in God! It's something that they have to decide themselves (possibly with your help later on....)

Also, I've heard that we originally didn't have "Under God" in the pledge, and we just added it in during the whole anti-russia-because-it's-communist movement. Since the majority of Russia was athiest, we just put that in there just so we could prove we were different than them and that...I don't know...for some reason. I don't feel like researching it now because it's late... sweatdrop

i do know we didn't have it in the pledge before the 1950's, so assuming that is right, than did we add it in for the right reason, to fight a war against russia.

Yeah, I guess it really isn't fair for all those other people. And I guess there are plenty of better ways to show your fervor for God. A lot of bigger things...like helping out with people's needs and stuff. 3nodding

Well i think you have to remember that the Bible says to grlorify God in everything. They should keep it in there for the christians. If the other faiths choose not to say it then it is their problem. They shouldn't protest they should just not say it if theu dont believe it. It wouldnt be fair to the people that believe it.

yes, but in the constitution it says that america will have a seperation of church and state, and that breaks all principals of the constitution

How many English Translations are there, and how many did you bother to look in before you proclaimed it was teh wrong words?

Here's the issue though. Religion in Politics leads to a corrupt government. Politics in Religion lead to a corrupt Church. If you don't believe me I will show historical examples. Also, think of the people who don't believe in the Christian God.