The Pledge is also intended to teach the participant to subordinate himself on behalf of the collective and to venerate its symbol as a nationalist totem, and to cultivate the idea that killing and dying in "holy wars" waged on its behalf is the highest and holiest calling.
It should also be remembered that while the state's educational cartel exists, there will always be "compulsion in religion."
-Will Grigg
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