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Pledge of Allegiance ruled "unconstitutional"


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While most of the Founding Fathers were indeed nominally Christian, many of them were not very religious at all. George Washington, for example, attended church with his wife, but always left before communion. He said almost nothing in his life indicating any kind of living faith. The Founding Fathers certainly came out of a Christian tradition, but they were also profoundly affected by Enlightenment thinking,which was much more humanistic in nature. (Jefferson is the prime example of this. If you're interested, go read about Jefferson's "improved" version of the New Testament.)

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