Я обещаю преданность Флагу Соединенных Штатов Америки, и в республику, которую это обозначает, одна Страна под Богом, неделимом, со свободой и справедливостью для всех.Just as "Allah" is the Arabic word for God. So if someone says the Pledge in Arabic, they indeed are going to use the word "Allah". Christians who speak Arabic pray to Allah.
But you don't have to go very far to find pants-shitting going on over a bunch of students saying the Pledge in Arabic. Or conservatives calling out the pants-shitters for being, well, imbeciles.
Of course, the Pledge of Allegiance is total gibberish to school children regardless of whether it's recited in English, Spanish, Russian, or Pig Latin. I remember wondering for the longest time why those four witches were standing... I pictured them as the witches from The Wizard of Oz, standing around looking for little children to throw into an oven like in Hansel and Gretel. Man, the pledge was *scary* for a little 1st grader!
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Yeah, I remember thinking during the pauses in the recitation, "You sure?" and "Wait, that's not true!"
ReplyDeleteBut then, I was a weird kid. I couldn't understand how allegiance to a flag works, so I stopped saying the words "the flag of".
You Yangs like your worship-words...
ReplyDeleteCLOUD: I am Cloud William, chief. Also son of chief. Guardian of the holies, speaker of the holy words, leader of warriors. Many have died, but this is the last of the Kohm places. What is ours is ours again.
(He goes over to the flag and puts his left hand over his heart.)
CLOUD: Aypledgli ianectu flaggen tupep kile for stahn
KIRK: And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
ELDER: He spoke the holy word.
(Kirk is brought forward to the table.)
CLOUD: You know many of our high-worship words. How?
KIRK: In my land we have a tribe like you.
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To add to Tux's remarks, I remember when our godly Congress added the phrase "under god" to the pledge, sometime between 1st & 2nd grade. For a few weeks we stumbled over that as much as we did the debts/trespasses in the lords prayer.
ReplyDeleteYeah, in 1st and 2nd grade I used to drive myself to distraction (a very short drive) wondering what those widget stands looked like and where the hell they all were.
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