How Christian nationalism played a role in incorporating the phrase ‘so help me God’ in the presidential oath of office

The Conversation • Those four little words are not in the Constitution, but for many Americans, the phrase has been a part of the oath ever since George Washington was said to have added it 236 years ago.

(Ramon de Elorriaga | Encyclopedia Britannica via Wikimedia Commons) An oil painting of George Washington taking the oath of office as the first president of the United States on April 30, 1789, in New York City.