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To: tejek who wrote (208614)	10/26/2004 10:18:54 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574411

It's unclear precisely where the idea originated, One of the main reasons to place "Under God" in the pledge was a throwback to the civil war. The key is the placement. The actual pledge, which was a loyalty oath, called for One Nation Indivisible. That was an explicit acknowledgement that the civil war was ended and that Union had prevailed. The change was made to One Nation Under God and the phrase Indivisible syntactly now modifies God, meaning that God is indivisible and not the nation. For southerners the pledge is now an oath to combine church & state. TP