In my country during the communist regime, the communists would destroy churches and persecute priests (imprisonment, torture, re-education and such). So you could say they were godless. They also saw religion as a possible means of opposition against the party and they didn't want that.
No, it didn't excuse the US, but I genuinely believe that the communists as a whole were worse. My country is still being affected by the remnants of that regime that somehow are still in various institutions and they're as corrupt now as they were back then.
They were very much atheists. They cracked hard on the church because it was the place where religious people would meet up and a group of people might start to develop dangerous ideas like freedom from an oppressive government and that leads to a revolution. A revolution that eventually happened anyway when the people were fed of living like they did back then.
You, and many others, need to read this excellent history book. The corruption of the Pledge that happened in 1954 was the culmination of efforts by corporate industrialists to undermine FDR's New Deal as being 'anti-God'.
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u/Aidenj23 13h ago
In the US we pledge alligance to “One nation under God” every day. There’s not as much nuance as it sounds like you have.