{"id":2908,"date":"2025-06-15T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:54:52","slug":"us-founding-fathers-wanted-separation-of-religion-and-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/?p=2908","title":{"rendered":"US Founding fathers wanted separation of religion and government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The phrase \u201cone nation under God\u201d was added to the Pledge in 1954 \u2014 not by the Founding Fathers, but during the Cold War to oppose \u201cgodless communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jefferson and Madison would\u2019ve flipped. They fought to build a strict wall between church and state \u2014 not blur the lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d didn\u2019t show up on money until the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Founders built a secular republic \u2014 and we need to keep it that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Religion belongs in homes &amp; communities, not in government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/image\/jefferson-keep-religion-and-government-separate.ELj8\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.letsfo.com\/images\/2025\/06\/15\/jefferson-keep-religion-and-government-separate.webp\" alt=\"jefferson keep religion and government separate\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<p>\n    Note ID:\n    <br>\n    <code id=\"nostrNote\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;\">note1983279ulerfkw4ddzf0jf5t3t48zs4r5fzhc03wrn5u0mj974akq4rrc6h\n    <\/code>\n    <br>\n    <button onclick=\"copyToClipboard('nostrNote')\">Copy<\/button>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/btcpay.letsfo.com\/apps\/cyXxp1RKxQnN8bpQJjvwSEHjXbP\/pos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/images\/zapmar.png\"><\/a>Post#414\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase \u201cone nation under God\u201d was added to the Pledge in 1954 \u2014 not by the Founding Fathers, but during the Cold War to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/uploader\/images\/2025\/06\/15\/jefferson-keep-religion-and-government-separate.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[46,6],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media","tag-religion","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mar101xy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}