An atheist group is demanding Oil City, Pennsylvania, remove a bench from a war memorial set up by two veterans. The reason is one specific word on the bench that was spoken by the state’s founder William Penn. That word is “God.” Penn’s quote reads: “Men who aren’t governed by God, will be governed by tyrants.” Liberty Counsel is volunteering to defend Oil

City for free if its city council decides to keep the bench. The group’s attorney, Mat Staver, told CBN News: “What you have is a monument dedicated to our soldiers who have fallen and the VFW put up this monument. There’s two benches there and one of the benches has a quote from William Penn as a tribute to him as the founder of Pennsylvania. READ MORE


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