Thread: Under God not in the pledge of allegiance.
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Old 10-25-2007, 06:53 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pljames View Post
I heard the words under God has been taken out of our pledge of allegiance, is this true? It's illegal to say under God when pledging? Isn't that a freedom taken away? Rights for whom, freedom of speech for whom? Has secularism taken over America? pljames

I don't understand what the big deal is. There was no Pledge until 1892. I suppose those 1st hundred years or so the people were just less patriotic.
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Francis Bellamy (1855 - 1931), a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892.
And "under God" was not added until 1954. I guess the U.S. was just less religious before 1954.

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In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer.

The Pledge of Allegiance - A Short History
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