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I'm sick of the Pledge Of Allegiance. Why pledge your heart and soul to a godless nation that lets mothers kill children and homosexuals boink?

Anyway, I said all of that to say this: I was thinking of something today. It happens to be the institution where I spent the last seven years of my life: my beloved high school. (It was a middle school too, so don't think that I just failed the tenth grade twice.) As a part of their patriotic “bull honkey” (a term that was coined at that school), all students were required to recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the nation for which the Ad. held an unquenchable admiration and was, coincidentally, the most evil institution as far as education. When the idea was popular to remove the words under God from the pledge, the school was ticked to the degree of organising a boycott on Dr. Pepper for leaving the words out of the pledge when it was printed on their can. It's worth noting that Dr. Pepper removed twenty other words from the pledge and left six on the can.

I can only imagine what would happen if the two words were ever removed. I think that I have a pretty good idea. The school would protest by reciting the pledge with the words still in place. Think about this: firstly, if you were so devoted to the idea of standing by a nation, wouldn't you obey the nation's decision if it involved saying the pledge the way that they want to hear it? Secondly, do the words really reflect truth when it's said that the nation is under God? Thirdly, does it really seem right to place our allegiance in a flag? Think about it: it's a frickin' piece of cloth.

I remember how we used to make fun of the Jewish kid in kindergarten for not saying the pledge. Now, I wish that people would have made fun of me. Ignorant fools!