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In a message dated 6/9/00 8:20:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
acarolan.us writes:
<< Couldn't have been the pledge of allegiance, nor the "one nation under
God". So truly, Since you are a history teacher, please enlighten me. I
understand that the laws of our land and its early foundations were
taken from biblical principles.
>>
The 'under God' parts were added later. Most of the founding fathers were
freethinkers and men of the 'age of reason,' were they not?
They had had long experience of religion and the state and knew of its
excesses.
Artie
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