There is indeed a Christian flag.

[ContraBass Black]

I was reminded of this by the "Christian American Flag" post yesterday.

I attended a Southern Baptist school from grades k-4. Every morning, immediately after reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, we would turn to this flag



and say:

"I pledge allegiance To the Christian Flag
And to the Saviour,
For whose Kingdom it stands.
One Saviour, crucified,
risen and coming again,
With life and liberty
for all who believe."

Immediately after that, we would turn and pledge our allegiance to the Bible.

[cynatnite]

1. We had to pledge to that at vacation bible school

I never could remember the words.

looking back on it now...'with life and liberty for all who believe' gives me the damn willies. :puke:

[ContraBass Black]

11. It's not the same life and liberty, it references the salvation of Christ.

But of course, not a single one of us knew the difference, and no one ever tried to explain. I'm not sure the teachers knew the difference either.

[FreedomAngel82]

19. Pure brainwashing

You do something all the time but yet when an outsider is inside and looking in and asks "why?" you can't answer. That's brainwashing.

[cynatnite]

26. At the age I was I barely knew what the words to

the pledge to the american flag meant. I just moved my lips.

[FreedomAngel82]

17. That's messed up

I attend a Church of Christ and we never had anything like that. Doesn't God teach about worshipping idols and whatnot with objects? Seems to me people are obsessed with flags whether it's that or the country flag. I love my flag as the next citizen but I don't worship it.

[Meeker Morgan]

2. Did you say the "normal" pledge, too? n/t

[ContraBass Black]

4. Yes.

It was treated equally, as was the American flag.

Which, in retrospect, is terrifying.

[sakabatou]

3. Please tell me that isn't true

[ContraBass Black]

6. Dead serious.

I never thought anything of it until yesterday.


Hey, look! New posts are highlighted!

[cynatnite]

10. My grandmother and I talked about this flag last week

my mom wanted to take my son to vacation bible school with her. I gave her a lame excuse as a reason I wasn't going to let him go.

[cynatnite]

7. it's true

we did it every morning.

This must be a southern baptist thing.

[NMDemDist2]

5. they fly that flag daily at the Baptist Church on the corner n/t

[Piperay]

8. I went to Lutheran school till 8th grade and

we had a flag too that we pledged to after pledging to the American flag. I don't remember what the flag looked like, it was not called a Christan flag it was called 'The Lutheran flag'. I don't remember the pledge totally but remember enough to know it was different than the one you had.

[jody]

9. That's what freedom of religion means. n/t

[ContraBass Black]

13. What bothers me now is how closely it was linked to the American flag.

I had my first independent thought in the fourth grade when I realized that the attack on Disney I was reading was ridiculous, and that maybe the attacks on Democrats in the same paper and many of the other things we were told weren't very solid either, especially the miraculous Bible stories.

[sakabatou]

14. An attack on Disney?

[ContraBass Black]

16. The article alleged that "The Lion King" was sacrilegious

Because Mufasa, while seeming to take God's place by appearing as a powerful, glowing spirit in the sky tells Simba that he is "the one true king" when of course, only Jesus Christ holds that title, and because Simba insults Jesus directly by exclaiming "Jeez!" several times.

[cynatnite]

20. I remember when they attacked Little Mermaid

for having a castle in the background with some of it that was shaped like a penis.

[sakabatou]

27. Other Disney fiascos include:

Aladdin tells teenagers to take off their clothes.
Letters spelling the word S-E-X are formed by a cloud of dust in The Lion King.
Rafiki chants a naughty phrase in a talking Lion King book.
A minister becomes aroused during the wedding scene in The Little Mermaid.

For more: http://snopes.com/disney/films/films.asp

[patrice]

12. I'm a Boomer, and in Catholic schools we pledged allegiance

to the American flag in grade-school. In high school, as a student, and later as a teacher at a Catholic high school, we pledged at assemblies occassionally, but daily school life began each class with a prayer, and no pledge. That was back then; i suppose it is different now that the Catholic Church has allied itself with the Fristarians.

[dave502d]

15. What would they say if people started burning this flag in Middle East,n/t

[murray hill farm]

18. want to get really freaked...there is a new flag...

being introduced as the new christian flag to replace the old one. the new flag is the american/christian flag...it has an american eagle on it carrying the old version of the christian flag in its mouth. Sorry to break this really scary news to ya all.

[jody]

21. Do you have a link? n/t

[cynatnite]

22. shut off your speakers--horrible song alert

http://www.uschristianflag.com/yes.htm

[jody]

25. Thanks. n/t

[murray hill farm]

23. no, but just this morning...

i took some tomatoes down the street to a woman who lives alone there..she is 80+...and when i went in to give her the tomatoes, she was watching some religious show on one of the christian channels...i think it is called the BCN or something...it was the 700 show, i think....they were all excited about the new flag...the american/christian flag they called it.

[damntexdem]

24. Life and liberty to all who believe ...

as we do.