🚀 go-pugleaf

Far too graphically the public out-crying about the court 'Pledge of
Allegiance' ruling examples our embarrassing lack of historical
knowledge.  The 'under God' clause was added around 1954, during the
great 'McCarthy' era, when everyne suspected an atheistic communist
was under their bed, and were praying that one of J. Edgar Swoops
finest Federal Bird Inspectors would barge into their bedroom
unannounced in the middle of the night and capture the evil creature. 

Not one single citizen or soldier ever uttered the pledge prior to
that time with the phrase '...under God' included.  Are we to then
conclude that all those soldiers who fought Hitler and Tojo were less
patriotic?  Less American? That all those American men and women who
died in WWII were condemned to a godless hell bereft of the company of
religious zealots, and paranoid ridden citizens who go to bed each
night in camoflage pajamas?

The only supplication to a god that I see any need for at all is the
plea that I somehow survive this particular era of 'Religious
Insanity'.

Monte
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books,
 and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." ---Gore Vidal