I've had a discussion on this topic held in one of my classes before and it sparked an interesting debate.

As y'all know the Pledge of Allegiance mentions God:

No.

Praise the Lord you filthy sinners!

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I think so. You know it has gotten out of control when people refer to Taylor Swift as the Lord.

I don't believe in any gods but I could not care less. It's just a word and pledging allegiance is retarded no matter what words are a part of the pledge.

But all the founding fathers were against having religion finding its way into government so there's that.

Yes, separation of church exists for a reason. Although the allegiance blatantly violates this guideline everyday.

Yeah. Since everyone in America has the freedom of speech and religion. People shouldn't be forced to say "God" if he isn't their belief.

Religion and politics should never mix.

No. Our country was built off of a foundation and he is part of that. There is no reason to remove or change it.

Either remove god, or remove the entire speel about separation of church and state. You cannot have both because they are completely contradictory.

I meant to ask more along the lines of society and our historical culture, not really our pop culture.

No. God should not be removed.

No. God created America and he deserves recognition.

From American culture? NO.

From the pledge? Eh, I don't care. From currency? Eh, I don't care.

Pledge of allegiance/currency =/= culture.

at this point it's just tradition to have it to that degree. also take into consideration you're not actually obligated to say the pledge of allegiance or use dollar bills. if you truly have a problem with it ingrained in such trivial little things then don't use them. not like anyone is actually forcing them on you.

I don't really care, since it doesn't effect my life at all.

But I think it should be removed, since there are now lots of people of different relgions (or no religion at all) in the US. People shouldn't be forced to be Christian.

I think soon the time will come when Christianity will have less followers than Christina does on Twitter.

Yes

I personally wouldn't care, but I know a bunch of people would be like "The United States of America is a Christian country, and taking it out would be blasphemous!" so...it's probably better to keep it.

And replaced with Lady Gaga, yes.

God is a part of America, though. The founding fathers believed in him!

If you don't wanna say the pledge of allegiance because the word "God" is in it, nobody is forcing you.

No, America was built on Christian values.

Praise JESUS