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To: Yogizuna who wrote (342)	7/1/2002 9:25:13 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3467

The law to add "under God" was passed very quickly in 1954 when President Eisenhower was fearful of a war with the Soviet Union... there was talk at the time that the pledge was too much like the Communist type pledges and he wanted to add "under God" to make it clear the pledge was not Communist type doctrine... it only took a California fruitcake to remove the two words 48 years later... at this moment most all California public school have had the American flag removed from the classroom... is there any wonder why people are taking their kids out of public schools in droves in favor of private school vouchers? I'll Bet this Michael Newdow is still accepting his paycheck which has "In God We Trust" written all over it... GZ

To: Yogizuna who wrote (342)	7/1/2002 12:22:44 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3467

GZ has explained the basic reason behind the 1954 addition of "under God" to the Pledge. This was a period of witch hunts(McCarthyism) and so it was pretty easy to get the Pledge changed. GZ has not taken the logical conclusion that if the reason for the words was to differentiate the Pledge from communist pledges then there is no reason to have the words in the pledge anymore. In fact one could argue that since the words "under God" exclude polytheism, atheism, and agnosticism then "under God" includes monotheism and by indirection Islam and Allah. Another twist to the theocratic problem of having the same God as the Jews and the Moslems.