Well then the song needs an update...
Orange Orangutan, in the gold tower
tweet me a tale, to usurp the power
When there's a vote, the dictator will fall
and down with the traitors, royal family and all
Well then the song needs an update...
Orange Orangutan, in the gold tower
tweet me a tale, to usurp the power
When there's a vote, the dictator will fall
and down with the traitors, royal family and all
It definitely made the POA into a prayer. You can read all about it:
Under god was added for religious reasons and to exclude atheists
So it was definitely all about religion.“To omit the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance is to omit the definitive factor in the American way of life,” Docherty said from the pulpit. He felt that “under God” was broad enough to include Jews and Muslims, although he discounted atheists.
“An atheistic American is a contradiction in terms,” Docherty said in his sermon. “If you deny the Christian ethic, you fall short of the American ideal of life.”
The week of Docherty’s sermon, bills were introduced in Congress to add the phrase, and Eisenhower signed the act into law on Flag Day — June 14, 1954.
It seems to me that large parts of America have trouble understanding that 'atheist', 'communist', and 'criminal' are not synonyms.
I can recall being slightly confused and taken aback by the scene in The Cannonball Run (1981), where Bert Reynold's character asks "Do you take your law and order seriously in this town", and the response is to point to a banner across the High Street that says 'Re-elect Sean "Kill a Commie" O'Scanlan; God, Guns and Guts Keep Us Safe from the Hippy Nuts', implying that they take law and order very seriously indeed.
It's obviously a satirical joke (and in hindsight a pretty good one), but to a naïve teenager, having not been previously exposed to this aspect of US "thinking" about communism, the idea that advocating murdering people for their political views was a pro- (and not an anti-) law and order position was really jarring.
This kind of moral inversion, I now understand, is characteristic of Bible Belt evangelical culture - they get pretty much all moralistic issues completely backwards. People can't be allowed to just do as they please, because that would undermine freedom.