Still Not Getting It
More Pledge Posturing from the Clueless
'This is something that we should get behind. It doesn't specify a god, it just says 'under God.' That's why our nation is great.A couple of things here. First, it does specify which god. The "g" is capitalized, which indicates a proper noun. In other words, a name of a specific god. That being, of course, the god of Christianity. It's even admitted as such by people who know the history of the 1954 action which added the phrase to the pledge. It was intended to distinguish this as a Christian nation, opposite to the "godless" communists. And second, even if it really weren't referencing a specific god, the fact that it references any god is a violation of the establishment clause.

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