Pepsi Products and the Pledge of Allengence

I wish there was a way for PF to "hide" letters like this, and maybe
email the poster that what they were writing about is an internet
hoax. I mean, this is the second or third letter like this recently,
and has all the same comments attached to it the other ones did.

Or we as members could unite and maybe read that one person pointed
out the hoax and mentioned snopes so maybe all of us don't have to
repost the same thing.

Just saying I'd rather see a "real" letter hang out on the top
25...and yes, I realize by posting this it will probably stay on a
little longer :)

"God forbid, that you try to change or REWRITE the pledge of
allengence!!!!!!!"
If you really feel that way, then you should support the original
version, the one written without the "Under God" in it...

That said, I'll be another voice for being sure you do things right
and check facts. SNOPES is a great site.

This is false.
Whenever I get an email like this, I look it up on snopes. If you had
searched on this site, you would have found this is false.
I always send the sender a reply with the snopes link in an attempt to
create a reverse chain, prompting people to look stuff up.

I learned years ago that what you receive in email is not always the
truth...if it was we would all be having free meals at Applebee's;
have $10,000 from Bill Gates; have a free HP laptop; believe that the
new US Gold Dollar coin does not have in God We Trust on it; that
there is a little girl lying in a hospital bed and if you forward your
email to 100 people AOL will donate $1 towards her health bill...the
list goes on and on.

The internet holds a plethera of information. There basically is
nothing that you cannot find on it.

Its fine to get upset and ticked off if this were true but you really
need to research it first before emailing Pepsi...try www.snopes.com
you will find out many email stories and articles on there.

Ah yes, the Pepsi/Pledge of Allegiance hoax. It will never die, will
it?

Let me guess. You got this information in the form of a chain e-mail
from a female friend or female relative.

Point of observation -- you never see men doing this

http://tinyurl.com/pepsihoax


What more do you want them to do?

They only made the cans between November 2001 and February 2002.

The mere mention of God invokes religion. Maybe not any one
particular religion, but religion nonetheless. It has no business
being in the Pledge of Allegiance, nor on the money of the United
States.

As an agnostic, I don't believe anyone should be forcing any belief
onto me, most especially not a government entity. I believe people
have the right to pray and worship to whatever deity or deities they
believe. However, there's a time and place for everything. And
religion not only does not belong within the Government, it also does
not belong in public schools whatsoever.

As a kid in school, I had a strong resentment to being made to stand
up and say the pledge every morning. Not because of the words "Under
God", since my agnosticism developed later in life, but because it
felt like forced patriotism to me. Indeed, there were certain
teachers who would try to make you feel like you would get into
trouble if you didn't say the pledge. There's something REALLY wrong
with that mentality. It's like saying "You're gonna be patriotic,
whether you like it or not!!"

Anyway, back to the subject of religion: Omitting references to God
does not in any way keep the religious people from praying or
worshiping whenever they wish. However, insisting that those words
remain is indeed infringing on my right not to have ANYONE'S religion
forced down my throat.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances."

The First Amendment pretty much says it all right there.

"Liberty" means "immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority."

Any requirement to say a pledge is, technically, a failure of
liberty.

Pledges are meaningless, if they are simply said without thought. A
pledge is meaningful if the speaker comprehends its meaning. My 6
year old is a smart kid, and he says he loves America, but I'm pretty
sure he has no idea what the pledge means. If it was "I pledge
allegiance to Osama Bin Laden," he'd likely not know the difference.
Really.

I went to a religious school. We never said the pledge. Why?
Because it was considered anti-God to pledge your allegiance to any
country, much less to a flag.

Not freedom FROM religion.

Just as you don't want anyone mandating to you which God (if any) you
choose to worship, is it really fair to mandate to others?

Had you done your research, you'd know that:

1. This was originally rumored to be on Dr. Pepper cans.
2. This is a rumor.
3. "Under god" wasn't added to the pledge until the 1950s, and
shouldn't be in there because of the separation of church and state.
4. You need to stop blindly accepting everything someone tells you
without doing your own research.

Oh, and big props for insinuating that those that don't say "under
god" are unpatriotic. *eyeroll*

I agree. Please do some research - this is a myth.

This is an urban legend. They are not putting the pledge on their
cans at all. Look it up on snopes.com.