The phrase “under God” was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, 70 years ago today.

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Oh, you mean when they violated separation of church and state? Yeah, that was pretty cool. /s

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This was an anticommunist addition during McCarthyism, but they couldn’t just outright say “under capitalism.”

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It was a very weird time, but thankfully we pulled back from embracing the Bellamy Salute… some events in formerly Weimar Germany made that too uncomfortable

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“Under Dog”

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