The “One Nation Indivisible” billboard on Billy Graham Parkway has been vandalized (photo: via The Southern Atheist Gentleman)
It appears intolerant theofascism has once again reared its sad little head. A billboard, sponsored by the North Carolina Secular Association and about which I wrote earlier, has been defaced by vandals. The billboard raised the ire of some local theists because it suggests the omission of the phrase, “under god,” from the Pledge of Allegiance.
From the Charlotte Observer:
The billboard sponsored by the North Carolina Secular Association omits “under god” from the pledge of allegiance. Sunday night our cameras found someone had painted the words “under god” on the billboard, with an arrow pointing out where the words fall in the pledge.
So much for tolerating the religious liberties, and the private property, of others and those patriotic First Amendment values these god-bothering hypocrites claim to hold so dear.
This is hardly the first time the faithful have felt the need to defend their superstitionist beliefs against another idea. A constantly growing number of faith-free billboards have been attacked, defaced and relocated due to death threats.
Here’s what’s at the heart of the take “under god” out of the Pledge controversy. In the throes of a nationwide panic over communism and the threat of nuclear annihilation, the US opted to slip a mini-prayer into the Pledge of Allegiance and daub a similar phrase on American currency. Why? Well, fear affects human beings strangely and causes them to make up deities to protect them from the big bad darkness. They imagine that to be able to communicate with their made-up gods, or convince their enemies that they’re in touch with the invisible man upstairs, they have to make up some mysterious mumbo-jumbo and chant it or engrave it in stone or write it on their money.
Here’s Porky Pig reciting the Pledge as it was prior to the 1950s pinko panic.
The Pledge of Allegiance the way it was intended, the way it used to be until 1954 when the phrase “under God” was added. Three years later phrase “in God we trust” debuted on American currency — the founding fathers, to their credit, had nothing to do with it (video: freedom0f5peech at YouTube)
