Austins Atheism Blog Does God Belong in the Pledge of Allegiance?
Does God Belong in the Pledge of Allegiance? Wednesday October 29, 2003 Defense of the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance is almost invariably based upon falsehoods and distortions. More often than not people argue that the phrase is necessary because this nation was founded as a Christian nation and/or because an acknowledgment of God is central to our political system. While that may be true for politicians today, it wasn’t the way America was founded. Peter Miguel Camejo writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: One of the many reasons that our founders insisted on freedom of religion and the separation of church and state is that they were not Christians but lived in a nation of Christians. Most Americans are unaware that many of our early presidents, such as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and George Washington, as well as great patriots such as Benjam
