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National Day of Prayer and the Death of G-d

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National Day of Prayer, a Jingoistic Tradition

Though the United States was explicitly founded as NOT a Christian nation, the church has from (before) our beginning been chipping away at the wall of separation between church and state. The Second Continental Congress called for times of prayer and fasting in 1775, and our second President, John Adams, again called the nation to pray in 1798 and 1799.

Other Presidential declarations calling for prayer happened throughout the years, often in response to the nation’s current struggles.

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Then the Red Scare. In the 1950s, the U.S. added a whole lot of G-d to official government messaging. We didn’t take things to the point of endorsing a particular sect of Christian faith, but we wanted the world to know that G-d was on the side of the U.S. of A. and of capitalism.

We made “In God We Trust” the nation’s offici…

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