{"id":1994,"date":"2010-03-13T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2010-03-13T03:34:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T07:34:14","slug":"am-i-the-only-christian-who-wants-under-god-taken-out-of-the-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/am-i-the-only-christian-who-wants-under-god-taken-out-of-the-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I the only Christian who wants &#8220;under God&#8221; taken out of the pledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This ruling makes me sad: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/03\/12\/BAS71CEC9F.DTL&#038;sfgabt=ttmabtc\">Appeals Court says &#8216;Under God&#8217; not a prayer<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> It doesn&#8217;t really matter if it&#8217;s a prayer or not. Why should people who don&#8217;t believe in God be forced to say it? I wouldn&#8217;t want to be forced to say &#8220;One nation without God.&#8221; I guess I could see a case for it if the pledge had always been that way, but the phrase was added in only a few decades ago. No reason we can&#8217;t just take it out. <\/p>\n<p> Further reading:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/the-pledge-under-god\/\">The Pledge Under God<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ruling makes me sad: Appeals Court says &#8216;Under God&#8217; not a prayer It doesn&#8217;t really matter if it&#8217;s a prayer or not. Why should people who don&#8217;t believe in God be forced to say it? I wouldn&#8217;t want to be forced to say &#8220;One nation without God.&#8221; I guess I could see a case&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/am-i-the-only-christian-who-wants-under-god-taken-out-of-the-pledge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Am I the only Christian who wants &#8220;under God&#8221; taken out of the pledge?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[722,724,723],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pledge-of-allegiance","tag-separation-of-church-and-state","tag-under-god","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}