About 50 Boulder High School students walked out of class Thursday to protest the daily reading of the Pledge of Allegiance and recited their own version, omitting “one nation, under God.”
The students say the phrase violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
They also say the daily reading of the pledge over the school public address system at the start of the second class takes away from education time and is ignored or mocked by some students.
Good grief. Here we go again. Considering that the group who sponsored the move, The Student Worker Club, has only a dozen members, I would be willing to bet that several of the students were apathetic idiots who walked out to avoid class. Of course that is pure conjecture on my part. I suppose that it is entirely possible that all 50 students were actually highly unprincipled cynics who actually believe the garbage spewed by the group’s president.
“Boulder High has a highly diverse population, not all of whom believe in God, or one God,” said Emma Martens, a senior and president of the club, which has about a dozen members.
“We didn’t think it was fair for the whole school to have to listen to it. It’s almost religious oppression,” she said.
Of course, I’m more bewildered by the statement that came from the high school’s principal -
Principal Bud Jenkins told the Camera newspaper on its Web site Thursday the pledge will not be moved, but added he was proud of the students for standing up for their beliefs.
I guess it’s all just hopeless. People consistently amaze me. And the whack jobs just keep getting younger and younger.
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The principal was proud of his students for reflecting his reprehensible contempt for his country and proud of himself for having a front seat to it.
Peculiar, it touches on what I was just setting up.
http://shawmut.blogspot.com/2007/09/little-knowledge-vs-abundance-of.html If that’s OK to do.
I feel that apart from the predators at the door (well, waltzing through our doors) we’re being strangled by constrictors within. I hope Mr. Jenkins will live long enough to watch his little charges being decapitated when they refuse to cite of Allah, May His Tongue Lick Blood, The Most Serene Murder and Frequent Carpet Flyer
They would NEVER refuse to recite the pledge to Allah, Shawmut. Because there are consequences for that.
It’s easy to be brave and stand up for what you “believe in” when you know there is no danger.
We don’t espouse the theory of consequences for one’s actions in childrearing anymore, at home or in education.
Whack Jobs keep getting younger and younger? If that’s how you’re gonna deal with the fact that each passing generation is more and more athiestic and that religous craziness is due to extinction, then that’s cool.
Just saying if you’re religious in this day and age, then your dissapointments lay ahead of you….
Tom Tom Tom -
We’ve talked about this before. More and more are not atheists, and as I have said before. Atheists are the ones laying in bed at night thinking about us Christians. We really don’t care if you guys believe or not.
Our country does not have to deal with their extremism. It’s the Democratic way.
Wow Steve, you seem to have it backwards.
I’ve never seen a more radically obsessive group than Christians. Christians are the ones that actually ADDED religious references to places where there were none. The pledge originally was secular, but the creepy crazy christians looked at it and said:
“AAAHHHHHH IT DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING ABOUT GOD!!!!!!! HOW WILL I LIIIVEEE!?!?!? *slits throat*”
If you don’t care if we believe of not than why are you the ones building churches and setting up Christian “rock” concerts in a desperate last ditch effort to keep your fleeting majority? Hmm..?
It’s a socialist pledge anyway, written by a socialist. You GOPers have to PLEASE let me KEEP UP with your hypocrisy! So you hate socialism but you LITERALLY worship the socialist-written pledge? It was intended as an indoctrination tool for socialism, in fact it originally had the Nazi salute incorporated in it rather than the hand on heart. The word “indivisible” says it all.
PS: TELL me when you reply to my comment by emailing me at domino8515@gmail.com
-Hope you’re doing well,
Tom
I’m really offended that you won’t reply to me Steve:(
It probably has something to do with the fact that this post is over 6 months old. I posted it originally, so Steve doesn’t get the notifications that there has been a response. I’ll be sure to forward your reponse to him though.
“Christians are the ones that actually ADDED religious references to places where there were none.”
Tom, it’s tax season. I am an accountant and my responses are limited until April 15th.
But getting to your quote, we’ve discussed this before.
Christians added clauses in the sense that AMERICANS added them. Americans are Christians in majority. In Democracies, we share things that have religious connotation.
For example: someone is more likely to smile at you and say “Merry Christmas” or “God Bless You” than any shared connotation concocted by atheists.
It was Americans and that camaraderie that created the things that atheists hate.
Atheists contend that they are confident and peaceful creatures who need no assurance of the “fact” that we are made up of an explosion and were once mud. Yet, they are so vitriolic at the mention of a prayer or at the sight of someone praying or of course “pledging allegiance Under God.”
My advice is to just ignore it. You have that right. But as long as the majority of this country is happy, they may practice religion in which it is protected by the Constitution as a community if they so choose.
Also, don’t forget our earlier discussions on different “Gods.” Just because it says “God” does not mean it’s promoting any one religion. The fact that many Christians feel unified under it is a separate issue. One that shouldn’t concern you since you are not one.
BTW You’re response to me ironically argued my point that atheists spend more time agonizing over believers than believers spend agonizing over atheists.
Atheists are such a minority now, where was the vast majority of atheists back in those days that Christians set out to ambush with their “Under God” reference?