On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:43:29AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:43:27PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > The US is pretty adamant about separation of church and state. > > Which is why the phrase "In God We Trust" is engraved or printed on all > the US currency. That's why the Pledge of Allegiance has the phrase, > "Under God.." Yeah, adamant. The "under God" bit was added to the Pledge during the Eisenhower administration as a token gesture against "godless communists". Not sure about the currency, but we (the U.S.) didn't even *have* federal currency until the 20th century. Historical revisionism has never been more successfully practiced than by Christians and capitalists in the United States during the 20th century. -- G. Branden Robinson | Eternal vigilance is the price of Debian GNU/Linux | liberty. branden@debian.org | -- Wendell Phillips http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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