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Originally posted by MereMere21
yes "under God" was added later - perhaps as a KSig RC said, a knee jerk anti-commie thing....but that doesn't change the fact that as smilely21 said, this country was founded by men who believed in God - E plurbis Unim?
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"Out of many, One"
Dude, I think that disproves your point, rather than the converse . . .
By the way - not all of the founders were the good ol' Christian boys you make them out to be - many, like Franklin et al, were Deists, more in line with the philosophy of the time . . . so don't act like "In God We Trust" gives the government carte blanche to make our country a religious entity, as it's quite obvious this sort of statement on currency doesn't hold any effect on implementation of institutional things like saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Ever wonder why we're allowed to amend the constitution?
It's because the founders expected change to be necessary in more "enlightened" times . . . I'd like to think we're more enlightened than applying a single religious aspect to somewhere where IT DOESN'T BELONG, ie public school, when it directly violates everything the nation was actually founded on (and no, a religion wasn't one of those things - more likely FREEDOM of religion than application of a single religion).
-RC
PS - why would this get ugly?