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To: semiconeng who wrote (167565)7/8/2002 12:25:11 PM
From: fingolfen   of 186894
 
And by the way, just an FYI..... The Orginal Pledge DID NOT include the words "Under God", that was added by Congress..... You know.... The GOVERNMENT..... In the 50's. A prime example of Your Govenment Money at work.

The original pledge was a flag advertisement from the late 1800's.

The "under God" phrase was added during the 1950's as an outshoot of McCarthyism. Because Communism was an officially atheist philosophy (according to Karl Marx), elements in the U.S. Government worked very hard to mobilize America's large Christian population to fight Communism. In short, by playing both ends against the middle (Communism = atheism, but we still have "separation of Church and State"), there was no rise of Christian Socialism in the U.S. like there was in Europe...
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