Quote Originally Posted by Hyfi View Post
I stopped saying The Pledge Of Allegiance To The Flag in about 4th grade for similar reasons. Again, we are One World under God and he does nothing more for our nation than he does for all others, if he does anything at all.
When I was in grade school they still recited The Lord's Prayer every morning. I was raised in a Jewish household where we didn't pray that way. But yet every morning I was made to stand with the class and recite this christian prayer. I did it because not doing it would have made me stand out in the crowd. But I always knew that it was wrong for me...as a Jew then, as an atheist now.

When I sing our national anthem I don't sing "God keep our land glorious and free". I sing, "O Canada, glorious and free". I hope I'm never asked to sing at a hockey or baseball game.