“One nation, under God”, is a phrase we associate with the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America. There are people who have an issue with this statement.

The issue lies with the last part… “under God.” Some individuals claim the reciting of the phrase is a clear statement requiring them to acknowledge or accept God as the one true God. The inclusion of the phrase was not a means to conform the people of our nation to a single religion. If it were the case, we would be living in the End Times, as described in the book of Revelations, which is a whole other editorial in itself.

During the Cold War, many feared the pledge in its original state might sound like the pledges and mantras coming from the “Godless communist.” At the prompting of religious leaders, and with support of then President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who at the time feared an atomic war with the Soviet Union, Congress revised the pledge to include “under God.”

Though the phrase was a modification to provide the United States a clear identity from the Communist Party, several individuals have elected to challenge the statement’s purpose and meaning in the Supreme Court. In 2005, a federal judge declared that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional. The same year a U.S. district judge ruled the phrase violated a child’s right to be “free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.”

The same religious deity is being mentioned on every single piece of legal tender coming out of the Federal Reserve. There have not been many cases argued on this money issue.

When you consider the founding fathers, individuals such as John Adams, William Whipple, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Carroll. When they signed the Declaration of Independence, no one objected to some of the terms included in the document.

Terms such as Nature’s God, Creator, Supreme Judge of the World, and A Firm Reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, all have religious connotations. These men founded the nation on the leading of the Lord’s guidance. This is why He is mentioned on our currency and on the legal and governmental documents, which are the cornerstone of our nation.

There are people today who may question the mention of God in legal documents or in classrooms across the nation. Though there is a separation between the church and state, perhaps what our nation needs is to take a closer look at the cornerstone our founding fathers laid to build this nation upon.