Francis Julius Bellamy (May 18, 1855 August 28, 1931) was an American Baptist minister and Christian *Socialist*[1] who wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance in 1892.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two philosophies as being interrelated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Socialism
