>Could one, with a little imagination, create a religion in the air and say it is state-sponsored? Sure...but I think the person has to go through a series of unreasoanble inferences.
Unreasonable? The pledge says "under God". Defintion of God:
A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions.
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=god&r=67I don't understand why its unreasonable to you.
