I don't know, was the country renouncing God before 1954 (when "under God" was first added)?
Does Christianity really need government endorsement in order to survive? You have the question all wrong my FRiend...
Does this NATION need an acknowledgement of GOD in order to survive?....And to that my answer is a RESOUNDING YES !!
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Federer20030924.shtml (excerpt:
Darwin's "Descent of Man" influenced the Dred Scott Case, 1856, which stated slaves "had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order...so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."
" This influenced Margaret Sanger, who, prior to World War II, founded Planned Parenthood and hired Nazi Party member Ernst Rudin as her advisor. In her book "Pivot of Civilization" (1922), she called for "The elimination of 'human weeds'...overrunning the human garden;...for the cessation of 'charity' because it prolonged the lives of the unfit; for the segregation of 'morons, misfits, and the
maladjusted'; and for the sterilization of genetically inferior races."
Sanger influenced Hitler to consider the German, or "Aryan," race as "ubermensch," supermen, being more advanced in the supposed progress of human evolution. This resulted in their perverted effort to rid the "human gene
pool" of "untermensch" - races considered less evolved, through the gas chambers. Stalin followed this example, exterminating 25 million "inferior" Ukrainians.