Several have asked me to repeat my remarks on what the Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem means and does not mean and why we essentially renounce the responsibility of a Citizen, in the sense of the word that carries with it the responsibility for participation in self-governance, when we refuse the Pledge or the Anthem.
First what the Pledge or Anthem is not about: It is not directly about honoring the military or those who gave their lives for our country; it is not reverence of an object such as cloth flag, that’s idolatry, and; it is not even about simple love of country. There are patriotic people who love murderous, brutal, anti-freedom countries to which they belong.
Saying the Pledge of Allegiance, respecting what the flag stands for, and standing for the National Anthem is a public pronouncement of Citizenship, a public affirmation and recognition of your agreed participation in a social compact that is at the root of American Exceptionalism.
when you reject the pledge of the Citizen you reject the idea of the agreement that binds us peacefully as a society.
The compact is this: That we are one nation and no matter our differences, even when extreme, we each pledge, to each other, to debate and settle those differences inside the proscribed boundaries, the systems and institutions, of a peaceful republic.
When you refuse to honor the Anthem or Pledge which are politically and issue neutral, you are publicly saying that you are taking your argument and issue, your disagreements and disappointments, outside of the self-correcting, peaceful process of democracy and republican systems that bind us together.
In other words, when you reject the pledge of the Citizen you reject the idea of the agreement that binds us peacefully as a society. Rejecting that public affirmation of agreement is a form of renouncing your responsibility of a Citizen to act within the confines of our democratic and republican systems and principles.
By all means, this article is so correct. It is used by those who never knew what it stands for. They use it as a mechanism means, because they can not do it themselves the political way. A danger to Americans
The flag is made of idols…The star spangled is an idol of heaven above…And the bald eagle is an idol of the earth below…The flag represents idols, in the likeness of heaven above, and in the likeness of the earth below…An idol is a false god…The founding fathers made images of the stars, in the likeness of heaven above, and images of a bird (eagle), in the likeness of the earth below…The founding fathers set the images of the stars, and of the bird (eagle) in the flag, to serve them…If you are serving the flag, you are serving idols…God is not against those serving in government…God is against those serving idols…The nations idols are high and lifted up on a flag pole.