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Some atheists are challenging the inclusion of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. I think they're 100% right and even a lot of my religious friends would agree…but the challenge has about a 0% chance of succeeding. A whole swath of people who think America is the greatest, strongest force in the Universe would get hysterical, screaming that to omit those two words that weren't there in the first place would destroy the nation and doom us all to Hades and points lower.

Mary Elizabeth Williams argues that we oughta just chuck the Pledge altogether and I agree with that, too. My feeling is that if we'd never instituted The Pledge, we would point at other countries where they do have something similar and say, "Isn't it wonderful that we live in America where school children aren't forced each morning to rise and swear their loyalty to the government?"