Anyone else see the irony in splitting up the phrase ';one nation indivisible';?

Heh, I never thought about how it was the ';indivisible'; line that got divided when they changed the pledge in the 1950s. ';Thank you, Senator McCarthy and the Knights of Columbus!';Anyone else see the irony in splitting up the phrase ';one nation indivisible';?
Not directly as far as I know. He's just credited with helping fuel the whole ';red scare';. Along with the spirit of McCarthyism was the notion that ';Commies are atheists, therefore atheists are commies.';

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Anyone else see the irony in splitting up the phrase ';one nation indivisible';?
No more irony than adding stuff to it just to make ourselves look better than the 'godless' communists.
WHAT are you really trying to ask us about this?
It should be ';onenationindivisible';?
Debra - It is as much a part of our history as slavery, and women's lack of a vote.





As some of the other people are hinting, The pledge didn't originally mention ';God';. It was added in the 1950s during the Communist scare. The commies were atheist, so adding the phrase to our currency and our pledges seemed like the red-blooded, patriotic, american thing to do at the time. We just added it to distance ourselves from the communists.
Absolutely.





The Christian God is the very thing that divides us.





And a house divided against itself.............
huh? what 'irony'? ';indivisible'; means without ability to divide. joined with the phrase, 'one nation' emphasizes the strength %26amp; unity that is not only implied but overtly meant. a civil war in the 1860s was all about this unity, indivisibility, this united states. what would be 'irony' would be the 50 states constantly threatening to pull away, always fighting amongst themselves , never seeing 'the big picture'. america should, then, be called the DISunited states but then we're not! dispite what most people (translate that to outsiders) think, america %26amp; americans celebrate differences, love to eat %26amp; drink other cultures' fares, et cetera. the constitution nicely bridges the states' rights over the feds. anything not mentioned in the constitution is given to the states to decide. the arrangement can't be all bad in so much as our constitution %26amp; form of govt is the most copied in history EVER!
First the phrase isn't split.





Second, I'm assuming your inferring that since it says one nation then the indivisible part is redundant.





However, it isn't redundant as one nation can be divided, and the phrase means that as one nation we will stand indivisible and won't be divided.
I say leave it as it is. It is part of our History.
heheh yeah...





Here in Texas our state consitution says ';one state indivisible'; but guess what... it really is! Texas can be divided according to our laws here. So.... the state constitution is inaccurate.
When identifying ourselves or other identify us, we are Americans first.
Yes i do.
How does allowing for different beliefs divide a nation?





Was not this nation founded on that very principle?
Ah, yes. Only when we tried to make political hay, by showing that we were a nation ';under God';, when we ignored the fact that separation of church and state is for the mutual benefit of both the church and the state, then we divided up what should have been indivisible. Very nice observation!
You forgot the comma.