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I've always thought of starting a controversy at school by not saying the pledge of alliegance.
The teachers force us to do it, I'm not a big fan of doing stupid stuff like "pledges" anyways... That stuff is for boy scouts...
Scrap the whole thing.

Yeah well this country was founded under Christians and the founding fathers created those to be used. Under God was put into the pledge because the fore fathers believed in Christianity.

I think it should stay the way it is. even if they do remove it "officially" people will still say under God.

"One nation under god" was put in the pledge because we wanted to look superior to the Russians during the cold war i believe. So we could be like haha were better than u. We have a god and u dont. or something like that

Strongly Disagree, for obvious reasons.

Yea, this country was found under Christian Principles and christianity continues to be the dominant religion in this country.

Same with me, I dont really care about it, besides, it sounds good, it sounds all formal-like.

Strongly Agree.
This coutry was founded on pluralism, secularism, and equality. Endorsing a monotheistic "God" is blantantly unconsitiutional.

It doesn't really matter to me.
However, if I have to make a stance here, I'd say I'd disagree because it will simply take off the American pride. Diverse cultures are what made America what it is today, but pride is important as well. Cultures have their own currency with their own religions, but I guess not many people migrate there as they do here.
-_- Well there's my two cents. $0.02

Actually, I dont think I care that much either.

Besides, look at all these bigger, even worse unconstitutional things going on around our country, like Racism. White supremists are still running around our country.

I haven't said the pledge in a little over a year. I don't pay attention to what I say, It's just meaningless words, so why say them?

Having that said, I don't give a rats ass what happens to it, but if I had to choose a side, it'd be to keep it in.

I've only said the pledge once in my life, and it was when I aws in a 1 month vacation in Oklahoma.

For those of you who said that the country was founded with Christian principles, you are mistaken. The country was founded in 1781, during the Age of Reason. The founding fathers of our country were all part of this movement, especially the main author of the Constitution, James Madison. They were all atheists and they acted upon the use of logic and rational thinking.
So if the country was something, it would be XVIII[sup]th[/sup] Century thinking.

The Constitution clearly states the idea of "Separation of Church & State" will be implemented and enforced. Thus, in any way, any references the Church, Bible and God, should be restricted from all goverment documents unless the document is specifically revelant to the Church, Bible and God.

In other words, it is illegal to put "In God we trust" in the currency. But since the goverment is doing it, no one really thinks of it as illegal, and those who do notice it, can't do anything about it because you really can't make the goverment go to court, the only way to do this is through revolution or that the goverment itself thinks that it's wrong.

In conclusion, I strongly disagree.

The founding fathers of our Country are mostly protestant. Only Carroll and Fitzsimons were catholics. A few others were deists, and only couple others aren't religious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fath...and_family_life

I strongly agree, If the priests always say that the material guaranty is not the most important thing in life, then money has nothing to do with trust in God.

OT: I don't say the pledge either, as I'm not a US citizen. (But I am a US resident.)

I agree that the words Under God and etc should be removed. Seperation of Church and State.

[center]Don't really care, it's not like they're forcing religion on you. You don't have to say the pledge, you don't have to use printed money, it's fine the way it is.
Plus the lazyness factor of reprinting EVERYTHING.[/center]

Seperation of church and state. If you are going to put religious references on my money, then I want all churches, mosques, temples and whatever-places-of-worship-you-have to be taxed.

Next person that says "but this country was founded by christians" gets punched in the face. Why? This country was founded on the goddamned idea that religion and state are seperate, not on the premise that we tell everyone to believe in god.

Strongly Agree, it is enforcing religion.
Honestly, the would be a better place without religion.

It'd be like changing to metric.

No, it wouldn't. A world without religion is a word without morals. Could you imagine what would happen?

*Kow gets raped and shot.

I think I'm likeing religion.

I disagree with it for one reason, just so we don't make the mistake of forgetting our history. You know, back when everyone was a religious nut.

Religion is a teaching of morals, ideals and values. Christianity is about love, forgiveness, and good morals. How would its existence be bad?

ADDITION:
Remember, we're living in the present, not the past (like the times of the crusades or the hardcore fundamentalists)

But its also discrimination. Do you agree that "God" refers only to monotheists and therefore is enforcing one type of religion?

Maybe so, but my point was that the existence of religion in general isn't a bad thing in this country, as some individuals have pointed out.