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In reply to the discussion: To those bemoaning the presence of the divine in the inauguration [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Start by changing the culture.
1.- remove "in god we trust" from money, a relic of the Cold War
2.- Remove "god" from the Pledge, another creation of the Cold War.
3.- Remove prayers and invocations from city Councils on up...including Congress
4.- keep religion out of public school.
Removing invocations from the inaugural will take a lot of changes well before you can do it in the Inaugural, the US s in theory a secular country. In practice it really is not. Any other method you are facing a civil war.
But you start with the first two, where there is clear precedent. Look, you tell me the damage. I come from a country with strict separation of church state...really...it took three major civil wars to do it. So sorry if I prefer the generational aproach to the bullet riddled one.
Now if we end up in a civil war, and your side wins, time to do a few radical changes...