Should 'under God' be removed from the pledge of allegiance?
81933
No. People just cant come to our country and change it to better them. Its been this way and we should not change b/c of them. Its a free country so you have a choose not to say it.
626203
Well..I too am offended. I am so sick of people in America making decisions as to not offend others, but pushes our beliefs to the side...I LIVE IN AMERICA...I EXPECT to be able to speak of God when I wish and have his name on what I wish..if these people are so damn offended by God then they need to quit coming here. They use our american currency with God written on it don't they?!? We take God out of everything, take the pledge out of schools and wonder why so many kids are screwing up and going down the wrong path...It's like this because basically America has said...well we have founded ourselves on this BUT as to not offend anyone that has come here we are going to shut ourselves up to please others and keep God out of everything...Do the people in other countries quit worshipping whoever it is they do because we go there? Do they change the words in their pledges or whatever to satisfy us? Do they remove their God from anything public as to not offend anyone?? This is America, land of the free....or so I thought.
742816
Congress passed the legislation to add the phrase "under God" to the Pledge on June 14, 1954.  It had already been under suggestion for a few years by that point.\n\nIt was not the first revision to the Pledge.  The original Pledge, written by a Baptist minister, first started as "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
725310
I would say it is a moral affair now, but certainly not a religious one.\n\nActually, Church and State are more separated now than almost any time in our nation's history.\n\nExample #1 -several schools across the country have banned the phrase "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, so atheist children "would not be offended by it."\n\nIf that's not separation of Church and State, I don't know what is.
105485
you know the pledge has already been changed once. "under God" was added I believe in 50's or 60's Anyways why does America keep messing with a good thing. Not saying that we should take it out just leave it as is.
1080317
One with "under God":\nI pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to The Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.\n\nOne without "under God":\nI pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to The Republic for which it stands, one Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
963929
This is a very good point, and i have actually researched it before.  In the Freedom of Religion amendment, there are two clauses: the establishment clause, and the free excercise clause.  The establishment clause is the separation of church and state, or in other words, the government cannot establish or promote any one relgion.  In the free excercise clause, the government cannot ban any one religion.  Oddly enough, atheism is only considered a religion in the free excercise clause, and not in the establishment clause.  This is a sort of loophole that allows the religion to establish atheism in schools, without going against our rights to freedom of religion.  Pretty messed up, huh?
1006978
Hollywood, the Media, and "immature heavy metal death bands" have given folks reason to think it MAY be offensive in some way, be a sign of satan or some such demon, etc. \n\nThe Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of religion and if someone wants to worship whatever, should be not only allowed to but should be respected in that, as long as we aren't talking human sacrifice, etc. Hell, I grew up in New Orleans and had a Voodoo priest next door and respected his right.\n\nCheck out my link. It's all the "approved" VA gravestone markers. I learned something here today!
1082626
The line in question, "one nation under God" was ADDED to the pledge in the Cold War days as an anti-communist stance.  Maybe we should simply change the pledge back to its original wording.\n\n"In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer."
979857
Because of the continual decline of our society. The loud voice of the whining few seems to overshadow the quite rumbling of the vast majority. There is little national pride being instilled into our youth today. They do not understand what the flag means and the costs that were paid to provide people with the right to complain about the word God being said during the pledge.
91228
Its the Pledge of Allegiance\n\nI pledge allegiance\nto the flag\nof the United States of America\nand to the country\nfor which it stands\none nation\nunder God\nwith liberty\nand justice for all\n\nI think the last time I said that was 25 years ago!
912768
I agree!!\n\nIf you have noticed, our country has really started going through a lot of challenges, since God has been taken out of our everyday lives, such as school prayer. Prayer at sporting events. Taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance etc.  etc.  etc.
835238
I have a feeling your mentality won't even listen to the wisdom of the answers.\n\nWe say the pledge because it is the foundation of our country, one that is a free country that - for better or worse - we have the ability to influence the direction of our government. We pledge our loyalty to always strive to be better and provide a safe haven for others to be better. For whatever argument you want to hold against that, know that if you voted and enough others held your view and voted too, it would change to reflect that view.
787470
It is everyone's right NOT to recite the Pledge if they don't want to, or to omit the speaking of any words within it that they may happen not to agree with.\n\n     ALL schoolchildren should be advised of this.  And then if they ever are put into a position of being forced to do otherwise, they either should ask their parents to report the incident to the ACLU, or do so themselves, if they're old enough to know how.
179996
The Pledge of Allegiance is recited every morning at the start of the school day in schools. The Pledge goes like this:\n\nI pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, for liberty and justice for all. \n\n(woo - that was from memory!)\n\nI have never run into another situation in which the pledge is recited. It's certainly not recited in the workplace. \n\nHere's a bit of trivia for you: The pledge of allegiance was first started in 1893 as part of the festivities that went along with the 1893 World's Fair held in Chicago. The idea was to have all of the country's children recite the pledge at the same time. I guess it just stuck. :)  (I read that in the Devil in the White City by Erik Lawson - a non-fiction book about the 1893 World's Fair - great book, I highly recommend it!)
1175581
I agree with what your saying...I believe that its a conspiracy to bring down our country and what our forefathers wrote in the consitution.  By getting people to stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance and even taking God out of it..is to me the work of  the KKK and other radical groups that have since changed their image.  If we stick together ...those of us that truly believe in the Constitution and  freedom of religion and all that our fallen comrades died for and our forefathers set for us...
939867
There is no such thing as separation of Church and state in any government documents....that phrase originates with liberal media types over the last few years to try to remove Christianity from our heritage as a nation.....all the founding Fathers prayed and even had services in the Capitol Blgd. often.