Prompt: Should the phrase “under God” be included in the Pledge of Allegiance?

In short, no it should not be. America is not one nation under a Christian god unless we are a Christian state — which we are not. Or at least, we weren’t supposed to be. We were supposed to have the freedom to choose our beliefs, not have them court ordered or government mandated.

Even longer version is that we probably shouldn’t even have a Pledge of Allegiance to begin with. Blind allegiance to a government or nation ain’t it. We need to be critical of our nation when we need to be, and it needs to allow it by order of free speech. I would rather we taught kids to think critically about their nation, their government, and their patriotism than have them pledge an allegiance.

Feel free to answer the prompt yourself in the comments.