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To: BartMar
Please show where the God mentioned in the pledge is a different God than the one mentioned in the Declaration. Ain't there.

Your point was blown to hell long ago.

Anyone who spent more than a half an hour reading the writings of the various men involved in the founding of our country could not even begin to attempt to make a serious argument that they wanted religion out of government.

Hell, at the time of the adoption of the US Constitution, most states HAD official state religions. The US Congress, by the first amendment, was forbidden from doing anything to interfere with that.

110 posted on 07/23/2002 7:47:00 PM PDT by Dales
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To: Dales
The Pledge of Allegiance is our sacred oath of citizenship. You do not have to believe in God to be a U.S. citizen. If an atheist makes this oath to a "nation under God", he is not making a true statement of belief. As long as atheists are allowed to be citizens of this country, they should not be required, in stating the official Pledge authorized by our government, to perjure themselves. The 9th Circuit decision does not make the Pledge itself unconstitutional. It simply reverts the Pledge back to the pre-1954 version, without those additional words.
111 posted on 09/21/2002 11:10:44 AM PDT by Hard_Pill_To_Swallow
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