re: #6 Skip Intro

Lots of stupid, government sponsered religious things happened in the 1950s. National Prayer Day, In God We Trust on coins, crap like that. I blame those damn godless commies.

How we ever survived as a nation before we did that is a complete mystery.

That wasn’t it’s genesis

From Wiki
days of prayer have been called for since 1775, when the Continental Congress designated a time for prayer in forming a new nation.[3]

More here

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