The words "Under God" should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.

The words "under God" should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.
I will number my arguments.

1. Because public schools have the practice of saying the Pledge of Allegiance during the school day, it gives children a religious message that the U.S. is a christian nation, when millions of it's citizens are not christian.

2. The U.S. is not a Christian nation, nor was it founded on Christianity.
The Treaty of Tripoli was ratified in 1797 by the U.S. Senate. Those who helped write this were George Washington and John Adams. From Article 11 in the Treay of Tripoli, it states "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion" Therefore, the U.S. is not a Christian nation.

3. One argument by the opponent may be that the U.S. may be a Christian nation because the majority of Americans are Christian. The majority of Americans are white, but is this considered a white nation? No, this is a nation of all ethnicities and nationalities.

4. This phrase "under God" wasn't even in the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954. Why wasn't the words in the Allegiance before this? Because the U.S. is not a Christian nation.

5. When a child is saying the pledge in public school, he is not only pledging to the flag, he is now pledging to "God," because he says under God, it assumes that God exists, regardless to the massive amount of people who don't believe in a God.

6. The 1st Amendment - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." 
The words "Under God" should be removed because it prohibits the free excercise of Athiesm. A child is taught to say the pledge of allegiance in public school. In the pledge of allegiance it gives the assumption that God exists. Why should kids have to have that assumption. 

7. "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." 
By saying one Nation under God, it assumes that the ENTIRE nation is united with the belief that god exists. This is not true, because there are many religions in the U.S.

8. Since 2004, the flag code has been changed. 

"Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of
America, set forth herein, may be altered, modified, or repealed, or additional rules
with respect thereto may be prescribed, by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces of the United States, whenever he deems it to be appropriate or desirable; and
any such alteration or additional rule shall be set forth in a proclamation."

The current president Obama even said - "is ... we have a very large Christian population -- we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."




Sources
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