PledgeTo The Christian FlagWords: Ask the children to stand and place their right hand over their heart to make this pledge. Say: I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Saviour for whose kingdom it stands; one brotherhood, uniting all mankind in service and in love. Alternate...
Author Francis Bellamy, a Christian socialist, and a former Baptist minister, wrote the original pledge in 1892. Original text “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Changes over time The original pledg...
each individual erects his or herself to recite the words we have come to learn by heart and accept into our every morning. After years of unwavering participation, I gradually noticed how odd this tradition seemed. Thoughts of what it means to pledge everything to a flag naturally followed,...
Flag Code in 1942, and in 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Congress added the phrase “under God” into the Pledge. Proponents of including “under God” in the Pledge argue that the United States is a Christian nation, at least 80% of Americans support the phrase, the language ...
He discounted the right of atheists to object, arguing that an “atheistic American is a contradiction in terms,” because if “you deny the Christian ethic, you fall short of the American ideal of life.” With Eisenhower on board, the campaign to adopt the phrase had more momentum. On ...
where the words ‘under the flag of the United States’ used to exist in this pledge of allegiance. But in 1954, our own Gov’t. removed these very patriotic set of words and inserted ‘under God’, believing this would be better for the country than ‘under the flag…”. Absurd. The...
As part of the campaign, Sharp gave an assignment to a member of his staff: Francis J. Bellamy, who was an author, a minister and an advocate of the tenets of Christian socialism. Sharp asked Bellamy to compose a Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Bellamy wrote it, and it was published...