"ONE NATION UNDER GOD"The "True American" thread has already been read more than 3,000 times. Obviously somebody found it interesting enough to read. So, please, allow me one final rebuttal. I'll keep it under ten paragraphs, using easily verifiable facts. After that, I promise I'll shut up.
Your founding fathers took great pains to ensure that church and the state were kept far apart. The Constitution makes no mention whatsoever of "God". The phrase "ONE NATION UNDER GOD", comes from the American Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag which your schoolchildren are trained to recite while saluting the flag. The original version of the pledge was penned in 1892, 105 years after the Constitution, by Francis Bellamy. The original pledge made no mention whatsoever of "God".
The flag salute was officially replaced by Congress in 1942 with a hand-over-the-heart gesture, because the original Bellamy salute too much resembled Hitler's Nazi Salute, each of which were copied from the much earlier Roman salute.
The phrase "ONE NATION UNDER GOD" was only recently added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, at the height of the McCarthy era, 167 years after your founding fathers wrote the Constitution. The "UNDER GOD" portion was adapted from Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address, which starts with, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Yes, it is correct to say that the American Civil Rights Movement began long before Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, both of whom actually were "True Americans". The Civil Rights Movement can be traced back at least as far as 1787 when the US Constitution was adopted as the supreme law of the United States.
How can anyone permit their biblical beliefs to create such a distortion of historical fact? It is as much fiction to claim that your Nation was founded on religious guidelines laid down by the Bible, as it is to claim that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole.
If Santa actually does live at the North Pole, that would mean he is most likely a Canadian or a Russian. So you might just consider keeping your eye on him when he's sneaking down your chimney in the middle of the night, hence, I suppose, the need for a handgun in your bedside table.
Thanks. It's been fun debating with you. I apologize if I've offended anyone. May the New Year bring you enlightenment. Good-bye.
-Ferdinand-
actual factual.
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