Should the "under God" part of the US pledge of allegiance be removed? It was added in 1954 so it has not always been there!

Looking at it from the outside it's a curiosity. The US, alone among the world's advanced nations, clings to the idea that there is a god -- a guy-in-the-sky -- who has his finger on the pulse of the universe and to whom we owe allegiance.

It's an entertaining myth that satisfied the ancients in their search for understanding but is now anachronistic.

Of course, the US, like the other nations established during the age of exploration, lacks the pomp enjoyed in the "old world" so clinging to such ideas, no matter how out of touch they are with modern knowledge, can be seen as "ceremonial". It's on a par with the wigs worn by judges and barristers in the UK and Australia.

Like what my friend Tim Curry would say...

The only reason religious fanatics got a hold of our country was due to the red scare. Which still persists today. The rampant usage of "communist" or "socialist" as means of insult while the person insulting clearly has no clue what either of those words represent. How often have you heard "King Obumma a socialist dictator!" ? Or "I'm moving to Canada to escape socialism!" Even today, it's still use ignorantly as a distraction from the real problems. And with such distraction, comes the opportunity to impose certain ideologies. Like "In God we Trust" on our money and "under god" in our pledge of allegiance.

Hey Mississippi and Louisiana! You don't want to be a bunch of socialist do you? Vote for this guy who just called his opponent a communist. Result? Ranked 1st and 2nd in thing you shouldn't be 1st or 2nd in for life! Highest poverty, worse education, most obese, etc..etc.

Personally, I think the whole "Pledge" should be scrapped from schools and government.  If it had any actual meaning, it no longer does to the vast majority of people who mouth the words.  We have not lived under "the Republic for which it stands" for decades.

It will be interesting to see what happens first,

in god we trust, or the end of money.

I understand that the American dollar is leaving soon.

I'm not even fully religious but the removing is wrong. United States created by the motto as a nation under the name of god & the basic of the country built by Christianity. The existence of atheists in the country also doesn't mean god should be removed from the belief. It's a very simple understandable subject, America is always a nation of god, but America is also a free land,where you have a freedom of choice & the first choice you're free to make is your religion someone very easily choose to not believe in god, but that doesn't mean we consider removal of such a very first foundation of the country. The fact is "It always have been there" but it just sat stronger on 50's .. That's all.

Removing "In god we trust" motto & belief it would be like an old house you've got, the house balanced by few stands, each one of those stands helping the house to stay up & steady, different period of time pass. You change the decorations, you modernise the house, you use technology assets, bringing freedom to the house rules, you let the members to find freedom of choice, they follow their faves, you do anything you want to that house, but you can't break or change any of those stands, you can't remove the stands & legs, because it been built that way, because doing that will make the house break down & get destroyed.  In god we trust belief is one of those stands for United States.