I first struggled with "under God" in my fourth-grade class in Westport, Connecticut. It was the spring of 1954, and Congress had voted, after some controversy, to insert the phrase into the ...

This associates him to another Greek god, this time the isolated figure of Pan, who was the god of shepherds and flocks, and we note the irony that a gift so equated with wealth and prosperity ...

And then, as if this wasn’t bad enough, Darwin revealed that humans were not “created in God’s image,” but rather that humans are merely a clever primate that had evolved, like everything ...