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Congress violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by changing the Motto and the Pledge in the mid-1950s and adding a religious opinion to public currency and what was, up 'til then, a secular oath of patriotism.
That this took place at the behest of Christians in response to the "evil" of Communism during the Cold War is no more surprising than the addition of "In God We Trust" to some currency after the Civil War.
What's interesting is that Evangelical Christians have been trying to inject their beliefs into the Constitution since it was being written, and have gone so far as to blame times of national strife on God's punishing America for failing to recognize him in the supreme Law of the land.
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