Keep in mind that I am a christian and I do believe in God and that I do respect other's belief's (I have athiest friends and Jewish friends, and then a multitude of others).
But also know this, you should have learned it by now. Our Forefathers built this country under the Bill of Rights, which give the right ot choose your own religion, but our country was declared by the Declaration of Independence.
In the first paragraph,
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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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When they wrote the Declaration of Independence, they wrote in there the belief in God, and that they built this country on the freedoms that He has given us. They built this country
Under God. We don't necissarily need the Under God in our pledges because of everyone's beliefs, but because that is how our country was built. We are on nation,
built under God.