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[Captain Angry]

He's an idiot, and he knows that his watchers are uninformed. They don't connect those dots.

Furthermore, we say "One nation under God" because fear of communism pushed legislators to add that phrase.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04E1DA153EF934A15755C0A9649C8B63

The United States Congress wanted to show that we were holier than the Godless Soviets. It was a way to whip up support for military spending and chest thumping. The Government could have made its case by showing the treatment of the Soviet people, or the other solid reasons that the Soviet form of communism was a bad thing and should be stopped.

But, Congress knows that most people will run in the direction they're told if the right phrases are used.

That's one of them.