Ruling on the Pledge of Allegiance

By Warbard

We all understand that the reason for the separation of Church and State was because of the persecution that our ancestors faced from Britain's state-oriented church. We all understand the dangers in mixing a religious organization with government policies, especially when we have a multi-cultured society such as ours with many beliefs. But this new ruling on the Pledge of Allegiance as being unconstitutional has nothing to do with the separation of Church and State. Please allow me to explain:

The idea was to keep a specific denomination and physical religious organization out of government. What these recent squabbles have been about is not the separation of Church and State, but rather the separation of Faith and State, and our founding fathers have never intended that. We are taking what they stated too far. Understand that these were faith based men, who in the wisdom God gave them separated Religion (as a physical organization) from Government. But these men held their Faith (in God) within the foundations of this Government. God is not church. Proof of that is that Islam; Judaism, and Christianity, three separate religions hold sacred the God of Abraham.

Anyone who has read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution understands that these men believed that God endowed all men with these rights, the same rights that now threatens to renounce God because misguided people seems to think that God and Church is synonymous when in fact he is closer to the idea of Faith or as an entity of Hope.

George Washington warned us;
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! Is it rendered possible by its vices?”

An exalted justice and benevolence = God

Our Founding Fathers knew that a nation without God, Accountability, and Morality, would quickly become a perished nation, feeding upon itself as it destroys all about it. Proof of this was the French Revolution and its “Reign of Terror” where they abandoned not only religion, but God as well for the sake of pure Secularism. As a result, the revolution became blood, butchery, and mob rule as no one was accountable to a higher power and as a result, a human tyrant assumed the office of that higher power and took hold of that nation, throwing her stately neighbors into the multi-national Napoleonic War. Even Nazi Germany threw aside God for the sake of Nationalism, and the Holocaust and World War II was the result. Many of our founding fathers were Freemasons, a group of men who has learned to separate what is physical religion to what is God and Faith. They knew the importance of an Almighty God, and yet knew how to separate their own personal churches for the sake of unity.

Let us not confuse these two issues here. I pray (or hope) that the people of the United States will learn to show the same wisdom that our Founding Fathers have shown in separating Church and State, but keeping Faith and State as whole, and ensure that the Pledge of Allegiance remains intact as it is! I will have faith that our government will eventually overturn this ruling and that Atheist, Agnostics, and non-monotheistic religious people will keep their beliefs, yet come to accept the principles on which this nation was built as they should its laws, liberties, and language.