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Originally posted by hoosier
NBC POLL
Do You Believe in God?
NBC recently had a poll on this question. They had the highest
number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls,and the
percentage was the same as this:
86% to keep the words, IN God We Trust and God in the Pledge of Allegiance
14% against.
That is a pretty 'commanding' public response.
_ ...It is said that86% of Americans believe in God.
Therefore, I have a very hard time understanding why there is such
a mess about having "In God We Trust" on our money and having
God in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Why is the world catering to this 14%?
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Uh, no one is catering to this 14% - I've never heard of anyone whining about money, even atheists know that it was added post hoc and doesn't reflect on anything constitutionally.
The pledge of allegiance is another story, since that line was added in a fit of 'red scare' anti-communist paranoia - most people looking for change would rather see the pledge as it was originally worded.
AAAAAAAAAAAAnd . . . you're misstating the question either way. "Catering" to the 14% could also be restated as "defending the ideals the nation was founded upon."