School board votes to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
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🗓️ 15 August 2022
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The school board in Fargo, North Dakota, has voted to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance due to the words “under God.” Author Salman Rushdie was stabbed roughly ten times Friday as he prepared to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. And a perceptive essay in the New York Times explains why Iran remains such a threat to the US. In The Daily Article for August 15, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers these news stories and why Christians should embrace our missional command to “do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). on the stupendous magnificence of God’s creation, see my latest article, “Supergiant Betelgeuse has unprecedented stellar eruption.”
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| 1:05.8 | The school board in Fargo, North Dakota has voted to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance |
| 1:10.7 | before their |
| 1:11.2 | bi-weekly meetings, ruling that the pledge does not align with the district's diversity code. |
| 1:16.6 | The board's vice chairman explained the problem in two words, Under God. |
| 1:21.6 | The words Under God were added to the pledge in 1954 by a joint resolution of Congress and have |
| 1:28.6 | withstood numerous legal challenges over the years. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, upon |
| 1:34.3 | signing the bill, stated, and I quote, in this way, we are reaffirming the transcendence |
| 1:40.2 | of religious faith in America's heritage and future. In this way, we shall constantly strengthen |
| 1:46.6 | those spiritual weapons, which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace |
| 1:52.5 | or in war." How many of our leaders today believe that spiritual weapons are our country's |
| 1:59.8 | most powerful resource? The Fargo School Board |
| 2:02.6 | certainly does not. In fact, the board's president recommended that members replaced the |
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