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I’d like to address a few points made among these responses… 1.) National Days of Prayer seeming to have a Christian slant – probably because most of the people in the Nation happen to be Christians! Maybe the title ‘Day of Reflection’ should be used, but I suspect it would still seem to have a ‘Christian’ feeling about this. 2.) ‘One Nation Under God’ – Yes, it has to do with Communism. It was added to the Pledge of Allegiance during the 1950’s (think: Cold War). Basically, the intention was to distinguish between ourselves and Communists in the sense that our Founding Fathers intended not for the government to be the highest authority in the land, but for God (or the Divine, or Higher Morality) to be the the authority, and for us to mold our government accordingly. That is why we have the democratic process – if we believe an existing law is morally wrong, we have the freedom and the means to try to bring about a change. History has shown this freedom sadly lacking in most Communist nations. (Also, in our education, we always learn about McCarthy and McCarthyism, but we are never taught he was right – do a search on the ‘Venona Transcripts’.) (3.) ‘Separation of church and state’ is not in our Constitution. The following passage is in the First Ammendment: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..’ Basically, it says our nation has no official national religion, and we can’t make one. No one can legally force someone to practice another religion (or any religion at all), and no one can legally prevent someone from freely practicing his or her religion. Kind of funny that the only part of the First Ammendment that most people remember is the ‘freedom of speech’ part. (Which, by the way, is there specifically to protect political speech, although we apply it to most kinds of speech and expression, and it does not protect the individual from the lawful consequences of his or her speech, such as being told he or she sounds like a moron.)

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Name : Gina-G23846, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 26, City : Washington, State : DC, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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