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"One NPR article written last year goes as far as to label Bellamy a “fascist preacher.” Here’s how the article framed the faith leader and his outlook -- one that would surely turn off most conservative Americans:
Francis Bellamy was a minister who was thrown out of his Baptist post because of sermons describing Jesus as a socialist. He and novelist cousin Edward Bellamy both saw a future for the United States as a country in which the government controlled virtually every aspect of a person's life.
Francis Bellamy (who also wrote for a magazine underwritten by flag sales and therefore stood to gain by having schools require a flag salute each day) and his friends got President Benjamin Harrison to incorporate Bellamy's pledge into the 400th anniversary celebration of Columbus' arrival in the New World. It has been recited in public schools ever since."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2013/07/04/one-nation-under-god-the-odd-complex-and-socialist-history-behind-the-pledge-of-allegiance:
"One NPR article written last year goes as far as to label Bellamy a “fascist preacher.” Here’s how the article framed the faith leader and his outlook -- one that would surely turn off most conservative Americans:
Francis Bellamy was a minister who was thrown out of his Baptist post because of sermons describing Jesus as a socialist. He and novelist cousin Edward Bellamy both saw a future for the United States as a country in which the government controlled virtually every aspect of a person's life.
Francis Bellamy (who also wrote for a magazine underwritten by flag sales and therefore stood to gain by having schools require a flag salute each day) and his friends got President Benjamin Harrison to incorporate Bellamy's pledge into the 400th anniversary celebration of Columbus' arrival in the New World. It has been recited in public schools ever since."
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