The concept of “one nation under God” has a noble lineage, originating
in Abraham Lincoln’s hope at Gettysburg that “this nation, under God,
shall not perish from the earth.” After Lincoln, however, the phrase
disappeared from political discourse for decades. But it re-emerged in
the mid-20th century, under a much different guise: corporate leaders
and conservative clergymen deployed it to discredit Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s New Deal.
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