The similarities between religious and nationalist rites are often noted. But this is no mere analogy.
Francis Bellamy, who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, intended the Pledge to function as catechesis through repetition: “It is the same way with the catechism, or the Lord’s Prayer.”
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