|
|
|
|
|
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| |||||||||||||||
Date: 8/3/2003 7:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 38095
Near as I can recall, the original pledge DID in fact have the words "under God". Good post, though I find your reasoning a bit off.  |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 7:18:00 PM
From Authorid: 57028
LOL... I'm sorry - but what's wrong with Pepsi not wanting to offend anyone??? Mystic Warrior... also you're wrong... "under God" was added to the pledge of allegance I forgot the date... I'll go look it up and post it unless someone else does first  |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:19:00 PM
From Authorid: 22992
How can you say that "we" want the words to say under god. PEOPLE CAN BE SO IGNORANT. I am a christian, i drink pepsi.. BIG DEAL. Ughh sometimes people anger me, pepsi simply wants to stayin buisness.. ITS JUST BUISNESS. I think that no one should boycott pepsi.. its a freakin soda company. Oh yeah and the original pledge did have under god i thought. .have a great day   |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 7:20:00 PM
From Authorid: 22992
Who even reads the stupid can......... ughh |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:20:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 13109
it was added by Congress in 1954 thats why you remember it ALWAYS being in there!  |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:20:00 PM
From Authorid: 56293
Hmmm, Doesn't our money have "in GOD we trust" printed on it?? Don't see anyone complaining about that. .  |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 7:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 38095
Yep, on further research, I see that the ORIGINAL didn't have it. THEN AGAIN, it was not written by the founding fathers, either... It was written some time in the 1800s... |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 53548
people just need something to complain about  |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 7:24:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 13109
I agree that it is just people complaing thats why i posted it! |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:25:00 PM
From Authorid: 14780
I will be drinking pepsi no matter what the can says...lol..  |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:25:00 PM
From Authorid: 38095
And besides that, I don't drink Pepsi, anyways, so I couldn't care less  Coca Cola rules!!! |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 7:25:00 PM
From Authorid: 57028
that's right Xavier Lynn... LOL LordOX you're right... what's the big deal... True Chrstians wouldn't want to shove God and/or Jesus down anyone's throat who doesn't want them anyways... it's just a soda company... and Pepsi sells sodas to Christians Muslims Jews Hindu's Buddhists Atheists Pagans Wiccans etc etc God is irrelavent when it comes to selling soda LOL |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:26:00 PM
From Authorid: 57830
i like this post. and i think that is extremely stupid that people wont drink it just because it doesn't have "under god" in it. No, Under God has not always been in the pledge, and i dont think it should be there now either. *i hate how on Monday mornings when we all stand and say the pledge how i have to wait every time for the words "under god" to be over with. They say it so slow and i sure as crap wont say it **waits for someone to "yell" at me because they're mad that i'm mad that i have to waste a few extra seconds of my day because of their beliefs** (haha, that SO didn't make sense)  |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 7:32:00 PM
From Authorid: 24924
Back in the 50's during that frightfully harrowing time when the United States was indistinguishable from the very popular understanding of what the Soviet Union was like, that is, when the McCarthy Era waged war against America, her Constitution, and most importantly, her people, making many facetiously wonder if perhaps they might find Liberty in some place like Soviet Union (because we weren't finding it here, that's for sure!), the government which then this spot of land declared itself "one nation under God." It was June 14, 1954. Before then, we weren't calling ourselves "one nation under God." (The words were: One nation, INDIVISIBLE, with liberty and justice for all)The only place you heard it at all was a forgery, if you will, of the Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln wrote out a copy of the Address by hand at the request of a preacher who asked him, on the spur of the moment (yeah, right!), to insert the words "under God" after the words "this nation." The Address never previously contained that language. Who was Lincoln to say "No" to anybody who helped preserve the Union? Typical of biblical Christians, they immediately published this version far and wide and lied to the public, telling the uneducated masses that the original Gettysberg address contained the language "under God." And even though you and I can both log on to the Lincoln library and view photos of the two original versions, the one he wrote and took to the presentation to read, and the one that he wrote down moments after the presentation was concluded. Neither of the two original copies contain the language "under God." This language has not been in our ceremony for more than 50 years.  |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:36:00 PM
From Authorid: 53052
hey i'll pick pepsi over coke just for doing that*L* this reminds me of a few months back when people "refused" to buy french products and renamed everything with the word "french" in it to freedom...  |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:43:00 PM
From Authorid: 55009
i will continue to buy pepsi till i die. pepsi is great and if they want to leave out "under god" then they can it is their right... freedom of speech you know. so what if christians boycott them they still will get enough revenue to keep going... and what about all the other religions you don't hear them complaining over the plege containing that instead of their own god.  |
Date: 8/3/2003 7:43:00 PM
From Authorid: 16705
i'm 54 years old and have always drank pepsi and will continue to do so. i believe in GOD and trust HIM that HE will watch out for me. GOD is not worried about a pepsi can. Hamb918  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:03:00 PM
From Authorid: 54570
Under God was added to the pledge in the fiftys or sixties. But I aint boycotting them for this They gotta try to be right with the views of everyone. You cannot please everybody but you have to try in the best way possible. I mean whats next they gonna try to take Bibles out of a bookstore cause it is religion???  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:05:00 PM
From Authorid: 53927
I'm not a Christian but do people really have to get offended if the words are there. I used to say under God when I said the pledge in school. Whatever happened to te days when people didn't get offended by everything. I don't think people should get offended by the words not being either. That's my opinion.  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 4614
Good for Pepsi!!!!!  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:16:00 PM
From Authorid: 45630
Political Correctness has again reared its ugly and disgusting head!  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:23:00 PM
From Authorid: 25390
I'm surprised no one posted that this email can be found on snopes.com.... http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/drpepper.htm  |
| Date: 8/3/2003 8:23:00 PM From Authorid: 62196 This is an urban legend, an untrue one at that, don't believe me? Check snopes. Hmm... you seem patriotic, have you not heard of "Freedom of Speech"? Besides, no one's tying you to a chair and forcing you to drink it. |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:24:00 PM
From Authorid: 25390
ah, 62196 made sure to look too.  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 13897
wow that's the stupidest e-mail I have ever read. why didn't they just accept and understand that Pepsi was trying not to offend people? hearing that Pepsi did that makes me want to go buy a whole bunch of their soda! And i don't even drink soda!!! I just think it's great that they did that. =) and Thinker- thanks for the good info!  |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 8:33:00 PM
From Authorid: 13897
eh, so it's untrue? well good then.. i won't have to go buy any soda lol. =) |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 8:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 25390
LOL Magenta Blue....I just saved ya some dinero so you didn't go on an anti-boycott spree! |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:36:00 PM
From Authorid: 34487
If Pepsi was truly good at marketing tactics, they would not have included the "pledge issue," on their cans at all. They could show patriotism in other ways. Now that they've taken the words, "Under God" out, they've offended some Christians. That was just plain stupid of them. They should've remained neutral all together. By removing these words they showed themselves to be bias on a highly controversial issue. If their sales do take a dip because of it, they only have themselves to blame. Pepsi has made many dumb marketing decisions and it started when they began using bimbos for their promotional ads.  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:39:00 PM
From Authorid: 34487
Oddsmell... I just saw your comments. So it's not true huh? Well good, we've got enough controversy in this world!  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:39:00 PM
From Authorid: 48689
I agree with Hamb up there ^. I am a christian and I will always have pepsi products over coke. But Pepsi does need to realize that no matter what they do, they will offend someone. By NOT putting Under God, some christians are offended, if they did put it on there, some athiests will be offended. I really don't care. It's not like I'm pledging to the darn can. *hugs*  |
Date: 8/3/2003 8:58:00 PM
From Authorid: 10722
Pepsi only did the pledge the original way, therefore, they did it the RIGHT way. And it's a PATHETIC reason to boycott over something like this.  |
Date: 8/3/2003 9:28:00 PM
From Authorid: 32070
Well. I'm a Chrisitian and I'm still going to drink it.......  |
Date: 8/3/2003 10:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 44960
I salute Pepsi!  |
Date: 8/3/2003 10:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 27046
I drink Mountain Dew. I might be concerned what was on the can if I was going to consume it. Since I don't have any intentions of eating the can, I could care less what they write on it at this point. Keeping it clean is the safest way to go.....  |
|
Date: 8/3/2003 11:05:00 PM
From Authorid: 13897
LOL thank you Oddsmell! |
Date: 8/3/2003 11:18:00 PM
From Authorid: 26598
Oh! For pete sake! grow up people! there are other religions besides christians. Pepsi is bought by millions worldwide, and not all of them are christian.  |
Date: 8/3/2003 11:28:00 PM
From Authorid: 28848
Oh brother...it's a soft drink. I find it humorous that it's even an issue. Can you imagine God saying, oh dear Pepsi left my name off their can, what a travesty...lol lol...  |
Date: 8/4/2003 12:06:00 AM
From Authorid: 58030
wasn't there a post on this a while ago.... and i remember hearing that it was a hoax... o wells..  |
Date: 8/4/2003 12:19:00 AM
From Authorid: 51671
Hmmm...sounds hauntingly similar to the crap of a boycot against Proctor & Gamble not too long ago...  |
Date: 8/4/2003 12:51:00 AM
From Authorid: 52612
yeah many people get offended by a few words that may seem harmless 2 others, but sometimes i think of it as if i were that person and saw something offending towards me, so i respect what they believe in and i'll leave it at that.. thanks 4 sharing,..  |
Date: 8/4/2003 2:47:00 AM
From Authorid: 35720
LMAOOO.. what cracks me up the most is this line right here- "If this is true, then we do not want to offend anyone at the Pepsi corporate office by giving them our money." That's so dumb.. it's a freaking soft drink for Christ's sake.. this is the dumbest thing I ever read. If someone's not going to drink Pepsi because of writing on the can, they have something seriously wrong with their reasoning abilities.  |
|
Date: 8/4/2003 3:51:00 AM
From Authorid: 3125
This is what I found on the subject...Summary of eRumor:..This message says that Dr Pepper is coming out with a set of soft drink cans with a patriotic theme. One of them is to have the Statue of Liberty on one side and the Pledge of Allegiance on the other. But, the phrase "under God" was not included in the pledge. Some versions of the eRumor include an 800 number for you to call Dr Pepper and complain. Others urge you to send a note of protest via their web site..The Truth:..According to the Dr Pepper website at www.dpsu.com, there is a special patriotic edition Dr Pepper can. A statement by Dr Pepper/Seven Up says the cans are to "...show support for the patriotic fervor that has been sweeping America since the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, and to show the world that we are a united nation of people who place a high value upon freedom."..One side of the can includes the Statue of Liberty and on the other side are three words from the Pledge of Allegiance, not the entire 31 word Pledge. The words on the can are "One nation...indivisible." In the actual Pledge, that phrase is "One nation under God, indivisible."..Critics say that omitting the reference to God is an act of political correctness by the company and that those who believe in God should complain about it. The Dr Pepper/Seven Up folks say their purpose was to reflect the unity of the country, not to make an anti-religious statement and that 90 percent of the rest of the Pledge did not appear either.. Most of the questions to TruthOrFiction.com have been from people who thought the entire pledge had been quoted on the can but with the words "under God" left out. There is at least one version of the eRumor that claims that..The protest arose when a 12-year-old girl wrote a letter to the American Family Association in Mississippi to complain about the partial quote from the Pledge of Allegiance She said there could be enough room to include the phrase "under God" and the American Family Association suggests that it was more a matter of choice to avoid reference to God rather than mere graphics.. Forty-one million of the cans have been distributed in more than a dozen states and have been discontinued as of February.. There is a virtually identical version of the eRumor that says it was Pepsi that took the words off the patriotic can. That one is false.  |
| Date: 8/4/2003 7:10:00 AM From Authorid: 48668 No, the words UNDER GOD was not in the original pledge, it was added by a president. |
Date: 8/4/2003 7:46:00 AM
From Authorid: 36901
I'm pretty sure this is a hoax. The same e-mail was going around a few months ago, only it was Dr. Pepper instead of Pepsi.  |
Date: 8/4/2003 8:05:00 AM
From Authorid: 62181
I'm gonna go buy a case of Pepsi now! lol peace  |
Date: 8/4/2003 8:39:00 AM
From Authorid: 13729
It looks like their marketing ploy worked,...What great publicity for PEPSI!.....Look at all the people talking about their product......Good for them!...........I will continue to drink it, no matter what the can says.......  |
Date: 8/4/2003 9:25:00 AM
From Authorid: 13283
This is a hoax ! This is not true . It would be a public disaster to do something like this . Pepsi 4 life !!! Razzy aka  |
|
Date: 8/4/2003 10:09:00 AM
From Authorid: 62074
Since I am AGNOSTIC I'm going to buy a bottle of pepsi every day to drink along with everyday a 24 pack, and pass them out to my palls, I am going to tell pagan and agnostic industries everywhere to buy out stores of their pepsi products! Keep the pepsi dream alive! Zim Matrix660 |
Date: 8/4/2003 10:44:00 AM
From Authorid: 36967
A message to the Agnostics, Muslims, Buddishs, Athiests, and Liberals, as well as the Conservative Christians. THIS IS NOT TRUE. Trust me, this is NOT TRUE. |
Date: 8/4/2003 11:11:00 AM
From Authorid: 55021
i'm still gonna drink pepsi! PEPSI ROX! i need more pepsi!!  |
Date: 8/4/2003 12:28:00 PM
From Authorid: 62116
Can we be any pettier? ~Nytwolf~  |
Date: 8/4/2003 7:21:00 PM
From Authorid: 54461
LOL.. well, I am still drinking Pepsi. Im a Christian, and if this is true, I really think they should put it in. God needs to be shown to the world!  |
Date: 8/4/2003 10:26:00 PM
From Authorid: 15070
LOL-I know what I would be stocking the fridge with....come on people, get real! It's not a satanic plot.  |
| Date: 8/4/2003 11:32:00 PM From Authorid: 62270 Wasn't this last summer these came out? |
Renasoft is the proud sponsor of the Unsolved Mystery Publications website.
See: www.rensoft.com Personal Site server, Power to build Personal Web Sites and Personal Web Pages
All stories are copyright protected and may not be reproduced in any form, except by specific written authorization
