The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855–1931), a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850–1898).
The original "Pledge of Allegiance" was published in the September 8 issue of the popular children's magazine The Youth's Companion as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.
The event was conceived and promoted by James B. Upham, a marketer for the magazine, in a campaign to sell flags to public schools and magazines to students,while instilling the idea of American nationalism in them.
Bellamy's original Pledge read as follows:
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Can that be true? Written by a socialist as a marketing gimmick to sell flags and magazines? With no mention of God?
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