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by maccard 1298 days ago
The country with In god we trust printed on their currency, who has "one nation, under god" as part of a pledge that children learn as part of routine schooling, who has the most senior politicians and judicial representatives polarized on religion sure as hell isn't secular in practice.
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All of those things were implemented after 1900 because people were scared of communism
That doesn't change the fact that the US is what it is now. We don't say that Iran is a secular nation because it was 50 years ago.
No, we say the US is secular because it's in the constitution