Should "Under God" be removed from the pledge of allegiance?

1. Every bit as officially as it was put in, surely.
2. What stopped people from not saying those words when they were introduced? The present generation is going to say it the way they were brought up to, and a number of them are going to try their best to bring up the next generation the same way, but the old version would quickly go the way of the dodo. Similarly, the Lord's prayer has undergone a number of changes in Norwegian over the past couple centuries to accomodate the evolution of the Norwegian language. It's been a slightly new version roughly every 40-50 years, so my father learned one version, I learned another, and today there's yet another. Although the content hasn't changed, it is an annoyance for older generations to have to unlearn the old ways, and most will simply stick to what they know. But the old ways will make way for the new, no matter what the old-timers have to say about the matter.



"One nation, under my parents"? "One nation, under science"? I don't think so. It is fraught with problems to either elevate one's parents or science to be more important than one's country, or conversely to make one's country subservient to either one's parents or science. That defeats the purpose of the oath to the country in the first place. "I swear allegiance to my country, but to my parents come before my country just so you know." People who do not believe in God (and "God" does not mean "creator", by the way - most gods are not creator gods), do not typically elevate other things to god-like status. And to someone who doesn't feel their country should be "under" anyone or anything, much less a fictional being (because that is what God is to them), "under God" trivializes the pledge, rendering it meaningless. If you are to invoke something you don't believe in, you take the pledge that much less seriously.