Controversy over billboards continues in Western North Carolina.
Over the past couple of weeks, the N.C. Secular Association put up controversial billboards in six North Carolina cities, including Asheville.
Now a Christian organization is putting up billboards if its own.
We Still Pray has set up four billboards in the Asheville area that say One Nation Under God which are in direct response to the One Nation Indivisible billboards.
A spokesperson for the N.C. Secular Association tells News Channel 7 they were showing people that they are just as patriotic as those who believe in God and say this was the original line from the Pledge of Allegiance back in the 1800's.
Pastor Ralph Sexton, Junior of Trinity Baptist Church in Asheville and We Still Pray says the secular billboards are an attack.
“They made a concerted effort to make a statewide message that we are a nation without God; a Godless society. To us, that's a major affront,” says Pastor Sexton.
“Most of the founding fathers of this country were deists... A lot of people that created this country were not Christians,” says Phillip Drum of N.C. Secular Association.
Pastor Sexton says if they raise enough money, the group is going to put up two billboards in every city where the N.C. Secular Association has already put up billboards.
As for the secular association, a spokesperson says some in their group would like to see the Pledge of Allegiance changed back to its original form.
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