A little like one courtroom under God. They weren’t the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals justices who decided June 26 that we aren’t one nation under God, as the Pledge of Allegiance claims.

His new book is One Nation Under God. In the original Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy made no mention of God, Kruse says. Bellamy was Christian socialist, a Baptist who believed in the ...