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Originally posted by Mike Rush
Total separation between church and state (GJ 9th Circuit w/ regards to the plege of allegiance). (Sure glad you were not around in 1776. The men who wrote the Declaration of Independance & the Constitution were proud of thier religious beliefs. They wanted to be free to practice thier religion --- not be free from religion!)
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Actually...if I'm recalling my textbooks and teachers correctly, some of the major men that wrote the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution were not religious individuals or Deists...why would these people want protestant religions governering their lives and the government...
Also Under God was added to the pledge in the 20th century...it wasn't something that our Founding Fathers would have wanted...