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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if policy requires it in school, your kid would not be required to say it, only to be quiet and respectful while others do. [/quote]

Of course. My kids have never attended a school where the pledge was recited, but if they did, I would advise them to stand respectfully and quietly, even if they choose not to recite, just as I would ask them to do if we were in any other country where a national pledge/anthem, etc., was being recited/played/sung. Basic manners, folks. We are a bunch of leftist atheists, fwiw.[/quote]

I agree with both these posts.  We are atheists, but I can still respect the pledge and the flag.  My kids know the words, and that is ok with me.  When they decide to ask me about god we can have a discussion.  Because the reality is, lots of people believe in god - and they might choose to... that's ok with me.  I don't worry about having to discuss it.[/quote]

Thank you.  I appreciate your perspective.  I am a Christian and I respect the atheists who don’t feel as if they have something “to prove.”  [/quote]

NP. Frankly, I've yet to meet one.[/quote]

You have.  They just don't talk about it.  Why would they?  My husband has worked with his company for 7 years and I doubt anyone there knows he is athiest (like no doubt in his mind, as there is in mine, that there is no higher being and that all we are are atoms of the earth).  He gives two figs about religion, so why should he bring it up?[/quote]

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