During the years following the Depression, Americans were told, time and time again, not just
that the country should be a Christian nation, but that it always had
been one. They soon came to think of the United States as “one nation
under God.” They’ve believed it ever since. But it is not true.
Back in the 1930s, business leaders found themselves on the defensive.
Their public prestige had plummeted with the Great Crash; their private
businesses were under attack by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal from
above and labor from below. To regain the upper hand, corporate leaders
fought back on all fronts. They waged a figurative war in statehouses
and, occasionally, a literal one in the streets; their campaigns
extended from courts of law to the court of public opinion. But nothing
worked particularly well until they began an inspired public relations
offensive that cast capitalism as the handmaiden of Christianity.
Read all about it in the New York Times. We're been manipulated by Big Business and hierarchy builders again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/a-christian-nation-since-when.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0
