(I have to admit I skipped pages 8-115)
By the way, this was talked at the beginning of the thread and maybe no one remembers it now, but "under god" wasn't originally in the Pledge. It was added in the 1950s by Eisenhower during the hey day of the cold war. Along with "In God we Trust" as the Nation's motto (it used to be In Pluribus Unum - Out of many, One - which in my opinion is more appropriate for the strengths of the American people. Whenever religion is expressed in a government/public context, it just causes rifts)