The words "under God" were added to the US Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, during the Cold War, under the Eisenhower administration, to mark a distinction between the USA and so-called 'godless' communism of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
When people today quote "one nation, under God" as evidence that the founders of this country created a Christian Nationalist country, they are repeating historical inaccuracies. You are welcome to correct them.
That’s also about the time that the US adopted “In God We Trust” as a national motto, supplanting the older but unofficial “E Pluribus Unum”
That phrase dates from considerably earlier, though.
Here's Aleister Crowley(!) with "A Hymn for the American People": https://hermetic.com/crowley/international/xii/3/a-hymn-for-the-american-people, in 1918.
(His voice here: https://aleistercrowley.bandcamp.com/track/hymn-to-the-american-people-on-the-anniversary-of-their-independence)
Sure, it dates back a good ways, but to the OP’s point: these symbols are not some founding legacy - as they are so often presented - but were deliberate choices made within the lifetimes of people you can go talk to. Choices that can be just as simply unmade.
Much like the ‘biblical’ claims of american evangelicalism, the coinage is pretty recent once you scratch away the patina of originalist pretence.
@DavidM_yeg @VisualStuart Absolutely agree. I myself am very anti-clerical. If God existed, He would be one of the least trustworthy creatures ever.
To be honest, I just wanted to show off that recording of Crowley. 😁
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Oh, sure, as I said, I think of "Magick" as snake oil (i.e., not just false but a deliberate rip-off).
Crowley does deserve to be remembered for creating the first detox facility for drug addicts though - before the concept of "addiction" was even understood.
His "Diary of a Drug Fiend" is still very readable where most of his material is not.
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Oh, that's Crowley's spelling of "magic" to differentiate it from magic tricks.
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