If we have to pull God out of the pledge, we will also have to pull Him out of the Declaration of Independence. Doing so will remove the legitimacy of our rights as individuals and our right to create the United States. I guess we should just consider ourselves British. I guess that means that we now have a church that IS established by the state. Hmmm.. I think I like it the other way.
The seperation of church and state as it is being implemented is a liberal creation. Congress is only forbiddon from establishing a governmental church and mandating that we all must be members, but since our government was founded on the idea that God has created us with rights that were being violated, it stands to reason that the government is allowed to recognize the existence of God. Our nation motto is "In God we Trust", or national anthem invokes the name of God and that was in existence long before 1954. Congress added the "under God" because the people were already saying it and asked them to make it official.
The problem with political correctness is that some people feel that they somehow have a right not to be offended. You are free to believe in such notions as atheism, but you must also deal with what people think and say about you. If you are an atheist, you must also know that the rest of society believes you have a right to be an atheist because God gave you that right.
Dark_5.0, "sarcasm" is intended to hurt someone. Use "facetious" when you are just trying to be funny.
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