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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

"Our country has no preferential treatment for any religion"

"One nation under God"...

"In God we Trust"...

Eye of God on all 1$ bank notes...

[–] lime@feddit.nu 87 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i think the "under god" stuff was added later...

yeah, 1954

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 58 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Apparently the pledge wasn't even a thing until the late 1800s, and wasn't adopted until the 40s.

Seems like overall is an indicator of modern jingoism and has nothing to do with founding fathers...

[–] phobiac@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In God We Trust is also an objectively less cool motto than e pluribus unum which translates to out of many, one. We traded the original ideal of a people united by difference into a boringly generic religious proclamation just to try to stick it to the commies.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

The beginnings of our current Christo-fascist problems in the McCarthy red scare.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As an outsider I always cringe and laugh at anything related to these kinds of things done there and we see on tv. Random political people talking? Then they mention god and all stupid stuff. Justice things like on a judgment and people swear on bibles and shit like that. It's a cult, all of it.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They don't specify a particular God

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The subtext is clear and not all religions believe in a single God and not believing in God is a religious preference when talking about a state not discriminating against or in favor of a specific religion.

[–] shiftymccool@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except that Christianity is the only one with the hubris to take the generic term "god", slap a capital "G" on it, and call it the name of their god. Capital-G-God is the one that keeps being used, even by you...