Quote:
From The Declaration of Independence
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals called the pledge a prayer because it contains "under God". It's silly to assume that mentioning God is a prayer. A prayer is when you ask for something. The pledge is a pledge. It isn't even a pledge to God. It just makes a simple statement of fact, that our nation was created under the idea that "nature's God" entitled us to create it.