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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 95 points 6 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.

[-] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 51 points 5 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.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 15 points 5 days ago

That makes sense. It did seem like the under god was out of place. Everything else flowed pretty well until the under god part.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

This was also the same time "In God We Trust" was added to all coins and paper money.

[-] easily3667@lemmus.org 57 points 6 days ago

You weren't wrong, exactly

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