Voice of the People: The Bible says all nations exist equally

Many of us recited the Pledge of Allegiance, the source of “one nation under God” in grade school. The Pledge, reputedly written in 1892 by American Baptist minister Francis Bellamy, was updated with “under God” by President Eisenhower in 1954.

Maybe we should highlight another concept in the Pledge of Allegiance: indivisibility. GOP internal wrangling spews the opposite. Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks once cited a loss of moral knowledge among Republicans leading up to, and since Jan. 6, 2021, thanks to “the panic of Rush Limbaugh,” the lowering of acceptable behavior standards and rising tolerance for violence.

The Bible says all nations exist equally, so America qualifies as a nation under God. Now if we just acted like one.

Jim Newton

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