"Under God"

[Duelist925]

There is pretty much no reason for it to be in the pledge. Hell, as the esteemable Lewis Black has stated, it was only added to differentiate us from the, in his wise words, "godless commie fucks", and since the cold wars over, yeah, pretty much useless now.

[jackfaire]

There was a word I learned in English class...it means...two words that sound the same, but mean different things. This could be one of those words!

Homonym yeah I know. That's my point the people that feel uncomfortable saying Under God would lose and the people that want to push this as a Christian Nation would win.

[Gravekeeper]

Seeing as "Under God" was a recent edition it should be removed completely. But the revisionist historians on the right would lose their shit if you tried. You'd be attacking the ficitional Christian Nation that never actually existed that they all fondly remember the Founding Fathers creating in an imaginary history book.

[DrFaroohk]

There was a word I learned in English class...it means...two words that sound the same, but mean different things. This could be one of those words!

[jackfaire]

Just curious...would the big problem with the POA, mainly being the "Under God" line, make everyone happy if it was "Under god"? I know it's such a minor change, but at the same time seems like it'd satisfy everyone's problems.

In what way?

I mean I think your getting at then the little g implies we aren't just talking about the Christian god but the thing is this isn't something read silently and sit down.

This is something that is spoken aloud. Altering the way the word looks in writing makes no difference if not altered how it is heard.

It would be like snickering when talking to a Grammar Nazi cuz dude I totally said Their awesome instead of They're awesome and she totally didn't catch it.

[AdminAssistant]

Why not just take god out entirely?

[DrFaroohk]

Just curious...would the big problem with the POA, mainly being the "Under God" line, make everyone happy if it was "Under god"? I know it's such a minor change, but at the same time seems like it'd satisfy everyone's problems.