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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Mon Jan 13, 2014, 07:44 PM Jan 2014

If we're "one nation under God"...

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If we're "one nation under God"... (Original Post) Playinghardball Jan 2014 OP

Off to the greatest with you. obxhead Jan 2014 #1

Simple. Glassunion Jan 2014 #2

Because God was full of .... ? mindwalker_i Jan 2014 #3

Just look at the Bible. Yahweh was one angry, vindictive, murderous deity. Arugula Latte Jan 2014 #4

Exactly. progressoid Jan 2014 #5

They never said -which- God, yannow... (n/t) Shandris Jan 2014 #6

Saying we are 'One Nation Under God' when many don't believe it, means we are not indivisible Quixote1818 Jan 2014 #7

We weren't "under God" during WW2... JHB Jan 2014 #8

Well, the God whose one and only son was Supply Side Jesus. NuclearDem Jan 2014 #9

obxhead

(8,434 posts)

1. Off to the greatest with you.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 08:33 PM

Jan 2014

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

2. Simple.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 08:35 PM

Jan 2014

It doesn't say which God.

mindwalker_i

(4,407 posts)

3. Because God was full of .... ?

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 08:42 PM

Jan 2014

The original trickle-down.

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

4. Just look at the Bible. Yahweh was one angry, vindictive, murderous deity.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 08:44 PM

Jan 2014

Soooo ... Perfect for the US of A!

progressoid

(49,964 posts)

5. Exactly.

Reply to Arugula Latte (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 10:56 PM

Jan 2014

That Old Testament God was not a fun guy.

Shandris

(3,447 posts)

6. They never said -which- God, yannow... (n/t)

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 11:00 PM

Jan 2014

Quixote1818

(28,926 posts)

7. Saying we are 'One Nation Under God' when many don't believe it, means we are not indivisible

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 11:03 PM

Jan 2014

Just saying

JHB

(37,158 posts)

8. We weren't "under God" during WW2...

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 11:15 PM

Jan 2014

The phrase was added to the Pledge in 1954, when it could be pushed as a "thumb our nose at Soviet state-mandated atheism" item, and who'd fight it in the heyday of McCarthyism? It was the same era when "In God we trust" was elevated over "E pluribus unum" as the national motto, and when Georgia added a Confederate saltaire to their state flag: it was all about showing who was boss.

The worst part are the ignorant ones who don't even know it was a late addition.

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)

9. Well, the God whose one and only son was Supply Side Jesus.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 11:19 PM

Jan 2014

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