According to the latest news, the Federal appeals court upholds the use of 'God' in the Pledge of Allegiance and on U.S. currency. How do?

With respect to freedom of religion, the First Amendment of your US Constitution reads: "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. " Prohibiting the use of God, in name or in reference, would be unconstitutional; as would be forcing anyone to implore God. As far as the legend, "In God We Trust" appearing on your currency, that does not establish a specific religion.It can, and has been, argued as being merely an intuitive recognition of a higher power, one unspecified.

This has been a constant in your country since your Declaration of Independence: "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. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...." Nobody is forced to believe in God in your country, but nobody is denied from doing so either. Your system is enviable in its purity in this regard.

Neither do you praise nor do you persecute the religious or the secular. For those who want God in your pledge of allegiance, For those who do not, they can omit God from the pledge. That keeps to the original spirit of your First Amendment.

It seems clear to me.

It's been there it does not hurt anybody and it is tradition to the Country. Leave it alone. Ptray to your God, even atheist sometimes say oh my God, if they don't believe then who are they saying this to.

I think they should take it out. Not everyone believes in God, myself included.

As an Atheist I think that it is silly that the phrase exists on our currency and in the pledge. My question to most is 'but which god'? Given the variances between religions we get numerous people pledging allegiance to different sky pixies, therefore rather than unite the people 'under god', we are partitioning them under their own god(s).

Personally I see the 'god' bit to be redundant, we are all humans, some of us are Americans, by pledging the way that we do we are compartmentalizing, you are loyal to god A and others to god B and yet others think that you are both stupid. Pledge allegiance to the country, or the flag if you must, but I see not reason to minoritize yourself with the 'god' bit. Oh and as someone that is working towards naturalization, one of the reasons that the founders came here was to gain religious freedom, freedom to follow (or not) any religion that they wanted to, without having to follow the official religion of the country at the time.

This ruling is probably paid for by the religious lobby, which has no place at all influencing politics.

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