Imma have to, mostly, agree with jared_c, his post was well said. I think it's funny that you can go anywhere on the net and the majority of people on a debate like this, go one way or the other, black and white, clean cut no discussions, heh heh, I like to live in the grey.

Our govm'nt is what it is, founded by people who believe in christ and the allmighty lord our god. Screw the money and coins, let 'em say in 'God We Trust', it was their gold that the notes were originally printed against anyway, their gold, their note. A dollar bill with the word god on it does not infrigne on anyone's rights, that's tradition, and history. You want me to look at a dollar bill every morning and recite 'In God We Trust", Imma say hell no, though!

A few people have said that if we remove the 'under god' section of the pledge that it will be imposing someone else's views on them. Peshaw, you wanna stand there and 'think' it real quick in b/w the lines, that's all fine and good, nobodies asking you to do something you don't want to do. Thinking 'under god' wouldn't force you to be singled out at school, or make a daily affirmation about something you don't believe in. Why should someone else have to do it??

Seperate church and state?? It's never gonna happen, governing bodies use beliefs and principles to guide them, it just so happens that ours were founded on christianity, no worse or better than many others. Seperate church and school? Heck yeah, religion has no place in education, but as a subject being studied. That doesn't in anyway diminsih patriotism, My Country Tis of Thee remains the same, and the pledge may very well be shortened back to it's orginal form, getting rid of the annoying pause that the 'under god' made in it's verse.