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"Under God" makes entire sense when you remember that, if Americans have ONE shared cultural trait, it's being morally flexible as long as you get rich. Trying to get rich is the only command they'll follow, the one thing they'll all agree upon. And they surely trust in their God printed on green paper, lol.
Your post is double funny because "under god" was only added in the 1950s during the red scare, and at the same time "in god we trust" was added to the money.
Look at all these slavemasters posing on your dollars
It's absolutely crazy how new a lot of American cultural norms are, given that they all sound so goddamn old.
Checks notes ... Most of America following the civil war was horrified and broken and considered the confederacy a stain on their history. Those statues and names were mostly put up a century after the civil war, after everyone who could remember it was dead. They were specifically constructed as a middle finger / scare tactic by angry white people who were worried that their hegemony was threatened by the Civil Rights Movement.
Checks notes... The authors of the constitution - including the practicing christians! - were adamant that an officially recognized state religion would be an existential threat to democracy. Any elevation of any religion in government is a death sentence to freedom and liberty. The addition of "God" to our Pledge and our currency was also only 70 years ago, and was also a scare tactic by angry white people who were worried that their hegemony was threatened by other ethnicities and cultures.
Thank you for this, had no idea.
Yes im serious idk how reddit like this is so I'll clarify that for now lol
This is like reddit in appearance but not attitude... mostly. If you had just said your first sentence I would have taken it as serious.
So don't sweat it motherfucker.
Noted! Love it
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