Online feedback in posted in response to “No `Under God’ I,” Aug 29, via iowastatedaily.com

“Under God” is the most important phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance. Looking at the character of the author and the period the original pledge was written, blatantly saying “under God” would have been redundant, as God was present in every aspect of political and educational being. Additionally, it is the only line that separates us from the many other nations that have risen and fallen. Without God’s continued blessings, our county will eventually fall just like the many others that have come before us.

As stated by Abraham Lincoln while declaring a national fast day, March 30, 1863, “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. … But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthen us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”

From the writing of the Constitution by our forefathers, to Abraham Lincoln’s unshaken beliefs, to the words of Francis Bellamy (a Baptist minister and original author of the pledge), to President Bush’s verbal outcry to God after Sept. 11, our country has been, is, and always will be, soundly dedicated to seeking after the One from whom we were given the gift of this nation.

Jason Schneider

Sophomore

Mechanical Engineering

Kate Lueck

Sophomore

Pre-Business