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"Roosevelt again addressed the nation by radio as war became ever more inevitable, to express to Americans the threat Nazism posed to our democratic and religious freedoms. On October 27, 1941, he described a German document outlining Hitler's plan to 'abolish all existing religions' in which 'the property of all churches will be seized by the Reich and its puppets. The cross and all other symbols of religion are to be forbidden...in place of the cross of Christ will be put two symbols -the swastika and the naked sword.' Roosevelt then concluded with the pledge to the Nazis that 'We stand ready in defense of our nation and the faith of our fathers to do what God has given us the pwer to see as our full duty.'

"Franklin Roosevelt was a man of deep religious belief who understood, just as powerfully as Washington before him, that religion and morality were indispensable supports to the preservation of our liberties and our country."