Update the Pledge?

At the height of the Second Red Scare, the Rev. George M. Docherty persuaded President Eisenhower and Congress in 1954 to insert into the Pledge of Allegiance the phrase "under God." He argued that the "Godless" pledge could just as easily apply to the communist Soviet Union.

Things have changed, argues David Walters:

In his 1954 sermon, Docherty argued that Judeo-Christian America was engaged in "mortal combat against modern, secularized, godless humanity." Today, pluralistic America is engaged in mortal combat against anti-modern, fundamentalist, religionized humanity.

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