>Alex you tell me exactly where in the constitution does it say to remove God from the pledge. And if you give me the pat answer of "separation of Church and State", then you had better look deep and hard at what that phrase was refering to.Come on! You are more intelligent than that!
Establishment Clause?
Establishment of Religion?
There was no mention of religion in the Pledge before 1954. It was added because of the Communist Scare. It is not a question of removing your God from it. It is divisive and should not be there.
Would you be willing to change it to:
"one nation, under Allah, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" ?
How about:
"one nation, under Quetzalcoatl, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" ?
Would that be offensive to you? Or maybe divisive and/or discriminatory, making you a second-class citizen because it forces you to pledge allegiance to a god you don't believe in?
Why would that be so and you don't consider it offensive and divisive for the 15-18% of the population that is agnostic or atheist? Why should those people be marginalized?
The Pledge is all about uniting people. As it stands now it is divisive.