[gcruse]

 
The original Pledge of Allegiance seemed to suffice
for almost two hundred years...

Then something happened unique in the history of
the nation: Americans grew frightened.
Perhaps it was the knowledge that a bomb
which they had invented could be used against
their own children. Perhaps it was the political
demagogery of a man named Joe McCarthy.
Whatever the reason, by the early 1950's
the people and their leaders had forgotten
why they had fought two World Wars, why
their forebearers had fled England, and
why the Bill Of Rights had been written.
 
 

[Sabertooth]

Then something happened unique in the history of the nation: Americans grew frightened. Perhaps it was the knowledge that a bomb which they had invented could be used against their own children. Perhaps it was the political demagogery of a man named Joe McCarthy. Whatever the reason, by the early 1950's the people and their leaders had forgotten why they had fought two World Wars, why their forebearers had fled England, and why the Bill Of Rights had been written.

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment was not written to preclude the mention of God in the Pledge of Allegiance.

You're aware, I'm sure, that the Framers held that rights were endowed by our Creator?

How can the mention of God, our Creator, violate a right endowed by God, our Creator?

[browardchad]

The original Pledge of Allegiance seemed to suffice for almost two hundred years...

There was no "original" Pledge of Allegiance. Francis Bellamy a Baptist minister, wrote the original Pledge in August 1892. Congress (our elected representatives) added "under God" to the Pledge in 1954.

[smalltownguy]

You have got to see this. Some of the posts are nuts, but, there are a couple ideas that may not be all that out of line.

http://www.datalounge.com/data lounge/forums/index.html?threa d=789346&stack=2,2:thread, 1:thread

[lexington minuteman 1775]

The Pledge celebrated it's 100'th anniversary in 1992 I belive.So about half its life it has had "under God" inserted which came in 1954.

[M. Thatcher]

You think the pledge has been around for 200 years? What are you smoking?

[mountainfolk]

By God, looks like it is going to remain One Nation under God. Thank God.

[rwfromkansas]

lol....idiot