The Fargo, North Dakota school board has put an end to the recitation of the pledge of allegiance prior to the body’s meetings over the words “under God,” which were deemed to comprise a “non-inclusionary act.”
“Given that the word ‘God’ in the text of the Pledge of Allegiance is capitalized,” board member Seth Holden said during a July 28 meeting, InForum reported. “The text is clearly referring to the Judeo-Christian god and therefore, it does not include any other face such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, all of which are practiced by our staff and students at FPS.”
On Tuesday, August 9, the board voted 7-2 to rescind a March motion which had put in place the practice of reciting the pledge at every board meeting.
Holden argued that doing so did not align with the board’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The move was met with controversy in an era when patriotic practices are often being halted in the name of “diversity” and “inclusion,” a reasoning which many argue disgraces the collective purpose of our country in the first place.
“We are misinterpreting the Pledge of Allegiance,” said former school board member David Paulson, who proposed the original measure and voiced his support to the board on August 9. “The pledge isn’t a show of our patriotism, it’s an affirmation of our commitment and our loyalty to the greater cause, and that greater cause is freedom.”
Yet avoiding division seemed to be the primary motivation in the board’s decision to do away with the pledge, as explained by School Board President Dr. Tracie Newman.
“I’m just not sure that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is a useful way to begin every one of our board meetings,” she said of what she described as a “divisive” practice. “I would much prefer that we open our meetings with a shared statement of purpose that would bring us all together to do the work of the board.”
HD Editor’s Note: Why Is This News Biblically Relevant?
As Decision Magazine reported, the board’s decision was not a matter of being “inclusive,” but rather, a desire to impose the religion of secularism on our society and its children:
Just five months ago, the board had passed a motion to begin each meeting by saying the pledge. But last month, Holden, an atheist, told the Governance Committee that another vote should be held to remove the previously passed motion.
“The statement that we are ‘one nation under God,’ … is simply an untrue statement,” he argued. “We are one nation under many or no gods.”
Author and Stand Up For The Truth host, David Fiorazo, asserted that: “Socialists and globalists have already convinced people that Christianity is intolerant and patriotism is divisive. But we must not allow the left to turn our love for God and respect for our country into something shameful, wrong, or dangerous.”
“Spiritual warfare is very real and more obvious now than ever in our short history. There are battles in heavenly realms over people’s souls and nations because of what they represent,” he further stated. “The enemy hates America because of the God we were once united under and the true believers who live for Christ.”
“Not only is the Bible no longer taught, it is now banned,” Fiorazo warned. “Whose morality is being advanced and legislated across this land? You know whose, and it’s not the only living God of the Christian faith. We need more people who are unashamed of the gospel, who know the true history of this nation and the U.S. Constitution to activate and take a stand for truth, righteousness, and justice.”
It has become trendy to believe America’s founding was evil and that it needs to be torn down and rebuilt (or built back better) upon a Marxist foundation.
In the future, the Bible outlines that a man will come onto the scene, the antichrist, who will establish a world government that is in opposition to God and Christianity. America and what it stands for (or what it stood for when it was founded) runs in direct opposition to this coming world order.
Terry James in his article, “A Prime Prophetic Indicator,” wrote:
On the one side, there are those of us who want to live under America as founded. The “America as founded” side can but watch while freedoms are attacked and eroded. The other side of the schism, the new normal side, cheers while America is taken farther and farther away from those godly, founding principles.
Black is called white, sweet is called bitter, and good is called evil, while the reprobate thinking increasingly controls and deconstructs constitutional safeguards.
While the efforts to bring America as founded into a configuration conducive to constructing the Antichrist’s platform of control, the evidence of swift movement toward the Tribulation era is observable at the national and global levels.
