[jyl]

The words "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950s by the Eisenhower Administration. This part of the Pledge is hardly "carved in stone" nor does it have anything to do with the Constitution.

In theory, I suppose I would prefer the Pledge not include "under God". I'm an atheist, my wife and kids are Catholic, various of my friends are Jewish, Buddist, and Muslim, and it seems a bit much to have all our kids pledge allegiance to a nation "under God".

That said, as a practical matter I really don't much care whether the Pledge includes a reference to God. As dd74 said, I think we have much bigger issues to deal with. And the fact is that the majority of the country is Christian, so the culture is naturally going to contain plenty of references to Christianity.