The phrase ‘under God’ wasn’t added to the Pledge until 1954 and that was against the wishes of Francis Bellamy who wrote the original Pledge in 1892 in which he specifically left out a reference to God despite his status as a Baptist minister.
The Pledge had been around for about 64 years before those words were added. “In God We Trust” didn’t become the national motto until 1956, not even close to being proof that this nation was founded on the Christian faith.
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