• qooqie@lemmy.world
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    Yeah it’s a weird fucking ritual isn’t it? It made a couple of my teachers mad in highschool that I refused to stand and pledge. It sounds edgy, but it’s such a weird brainwashy thing to do that

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      1 year ago

      Looking back, it is really weird. Do they still do “one nation, under god?” As someone who is no longer religious at all, I find this weird, too.

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        It wasn’t always like that, either. The “under god” part was added by Eisenhower in the 50s during the red scare. He added the “In God We Trust” thing to the money around the same time.

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      I just lied and said I was Jehovah’s Witnesses so I could sit out in the hall with the others. That was socially acceptable.

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        I did the same thing except I wasn’t lying. Ironically that cult is even nuttier than the cult of the flag. It was like I dodged a bullet by getting blown apart by artillery before it could hit me.