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Hugabear

(10,340 posts) Fri Apr 20, 2012, 02:05 PM Apr 2012

"Under God" added to the pledge as a Communist plot

Just when you think that the teabaggers can't get any stupider...

I actually heard this from a teabagger the other day. He claims that the words 'under God' were added to the Pledge of Allegiance as part of a Communist plot. The rational was to piss off enough people and galvanize socialists and communists against religion in this country. I tried to point out that this was added at the height of the anti-Communist furor, when McCarthyism was all the rage.

I asked if he thought that McCarthy was actually a Communist himself, and he actually replied "I dunno, he could have been. How do we know that he wasn't"

To which I replied, "How do you know that Obama isn't really a secret Conservative? After all, he's done a pretty good job of rallying the Tea Party against him."

His reply - 'Well that's just stupid'.

Oh, the irony, the stupidity...how do these people even function?

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"Under God" added to the pledge as a Communist plot (Original Post) Hugabear Apr 2012 OP

Why bother? sadbear Apr 2012 #1

he must be a history major Enrique Apr 2012 #2

Of course he is a huge Glen Beck fan Hugabear Apr 2012 #10

When talking to a horse's ass it is easier to walk away than try and convince it to eat oats Rambis Apr 2012 #3

I'm old enough to remember SheilaT Apr 2012 #4

I remember also, but at that time I was disturbed by it. RebelOne Apr 2012 #5

Exactly. If Congresscritters, the military and our government executives annabanana Apr 2012 #9

When I learned the pledge in first grade.... Lugnut Apr 2012 #11

Wait until they discover that the author of the orginal MineralMan Apr 2012 #6

It can't be healthy spending so much of one's life outraged. DCKit Apr 2012 #7

Oh sweet mother of pearl! annabanana Apr 2012 #8

It was! Warren DeMontague Apr 2012 #12

sadbear

(4,340 posts)

1. Why bother?

Reply to Hugabear (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 02:06 PM

Apr 2012

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

2. he must be a history major

Reply to Hugabear (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 02:08 PM

Apr 2012

at Glenn Beck University.

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)

10. Of course he is a huge Glen Beck fan

Reply to Enrique (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 04:29 PM

Apr 2012

Go figure. That man has created more conspiracy freaks than Art Bell.

Rambis

(7,774 posts)

3. When talking to a horse's ass it is easier to walk away than try and convince it to eat oats

Reply to Hugabear (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 02:15 PM

Apr 2012

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

4. I'm old enough to remember

Reply to Hugabear (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 02:23 PM

Apr 2012

when Under God was inserted into the Pledge. I was in Catholic school at the time, and as I recall the nuns were not the least bit happy about it.

In recent years I don't do the Pledge at all. When you think about it, it's quite creepy to be swearing allegiance to the flag, rather than to the government or the Constitution or to our fellow citizens.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

5. I remember also, but at that time I was disturbed by it.

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 02:30 PM

Apr 2012

I was just a kid in school and attended church every Sunday. Today, I am an atheist and do not recite that part of the pledge.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

9. Exactly. If Congresscritters, the military and our government executives

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 03:48 PM

Apr 2012

pledge to uphold the Constitution.. why are we supposed to uphold the laundry?

Lugnut

(9,791 posts)

11. When I learned the pledge in first grade....

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 05:44 PM

Apr 2012

There was no "under God" in it.

MineralMan

(146,333 posts)

6. Wait until they discover that the author of the orginal

Reply to Hugabear (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 03:00 PM

Apr 2012

Pledge was a Christian Socialist, named Francis Bellamy, a cousin of the famous socialist utopian novelist, Edward Bellamy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance