In the religious aspect......is it wrong to salute a flag?

Question

is it considered idolatry?

Answer 1

Saluting the flag is not idolatry. Idolatry is adoring something other than the true God. Those who salute the flag are not engaging in an act of worship.

Answer 2

Yes it is Idolatry but most christian will salute it any how. I would never salute the flag but at the same time I respect that other people admire it so I would also never spit on it or burn it

Answer 3

no, you're showing respect to your country, not worshiping an object

Answer 4

I think some 7th Day  Adventists call it idolatry.  Some Quakers don't do it for other reasons, but not because they think it's idolatry.  Most people are ok with it.

Answer 5

Saluting a flag is wrong because nationalism is the first sign of brainwashing.

In a religious context I suppose it would be idolatry, but my brainwashing comment doesn't really apply, as these people already believe in an invisible dude in the sky.  

Answer 6

To worship is to show attention, special attention to.....

In that context, each and every moment we do that in our lives!  We have to pay attention or somebody gets hurt or we make mistakes, what have you.

Humans are not perfect, no being is.

Flag saluting is showing respect, reminding you that freedom has a price and a story in this country or yours.

Pride, measured properly, is a good thing.

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Answer 7

Religious people are forbidden to salute flags .Christians can do anything they want to do to

please the heavenly Father.

Answer 8

It's not "idolatry" because you're not worshipping the flag.

BUT

I do not recommend it to seriously spiritual people. You ought to have one master and cannot serve two masters. The truly spiritual person has no nation and cannot prefer one to another.

Answer 9

No, it's considered respect. It's not like you're praying to it or worshiping it, right?

Answer 10

no it is not wrong

Answer 11

No. You're not worshiping it as God ( or what it stands for). Thanks for asking though.

Answer 12

In the American tradition the flag was never considered a religious object to be worshiped at all.  It was never meant to replace the worship of God in any way.  Instead it was to be symbolic of a nation and her people.  Every nation has flags and they are not considered religious objects either.  Every nation no matter what religion has their flag as well but to my knowledge they do not worship them either.

Yet if their religious beliefs consider it a religious symbol and should not be worshiped then I see no problem with that either.  It is an individual choice as to how each views the flag.  

Take care.

Answer 13

saluting a flag shows respect, not worship.

Answer 14

Depends how you feel about the country who's flag you are saluting. And then you could go with the ? of when it was made where they really a Godly country so do I salute that or if I go by the government of the time I'm living in do I salute that?  VERY TRICKY. I don't bother. I pray to God instead.

Answer 15

It's not idolatry ... Jesus seemed to cautiously be in favor of it when he said to pay to Caesar what he's due.

In other words, if the state requests or expects you do something, then do it, unless it's contradicting your own beliefs.

However, I think Jesus, by posing it as a question, rabbi-style, was also asking us to think for ourselves and make our own judgments.

Answer 16

Absolutely not, government and religion are two different things and national pride has nothing to do with religion.