Wojtek
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> Incidentally, in my rural elementary school (Millburg, Mich) we sort of
> sneered at this change. No one opposed (or supported) it but we thought it
> was silly.
>
> Carrol
>
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> Subject: [lbo-talk] "One nation under God"
>
> Interesting piece by a Princeton historian in today's New York Times about
> how the phrase originated and was promoted by an alliance of business and
> clergymen as an antidote to class warfare during the Great Depression, and
> how its use for that purpose has evolved subsequently, finding its latest
> echo in Mitt Romney's recent comment: "When you have a president encouraging
> (sic) the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus 1 percent,
> you have opened up a whole new wave of approach in this country which is
> entirely inconsistent with the concept of one nation under God."
>
> http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/for-god-so-loved-the-1-per
> cent/?pagemode=print
>
> This recalls the riotously blasphemous cartoon, later a poster, from Paul
> Krassner's satirical 60's magazine, The Realist, showing God sodomizing
> Uncle Sam over the caption One Nation Under God. It's online at the Realist
> archive : http://www.ep.tc/realist/48/26. when you scroll down to the bottom
> of the page.
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