Oh no, it is. Everyday until high school I’d said pledge, prayer, and sang the anthem everyday. I don’t mind the pledge because it reminds people of our values, but we need to lose the “One Nation Under God” shit in there. I stopped saying the please in high school, around 2016, when I realized our nation no longer had those values.
It was a risky maneuver to be politically active in a private school, but I learned to play oppressive systems against themselves from a young age. I am still the only student journalist in school history to have never had a single article censored. I’ve always maintained that Catholic schooling made me believe less in religion, and turned me into a socialist.