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The founding fathers, when they wrote "seperation of church and state" meant to keep any ONE religion out of government and instead meant for us to be able to freely worship the God of our choice.

I do not believe they meant nor intended us to take GOD's name out of our venacular. It does not say which GOD in the pledge or on money.

Everyone needs spirituality and a belief system (even atheists have a belief system and spirituality.... They believe in nothing, BUT it is still very much a belief in spirituality that they hold). GOD can refer to anything any one person places that value on. Therefore, saying GOD is no more offensive than saying love.

But it is important for us to keep GOD in our society because the value of belief (whatever it maybe) still outweighs no belief infinitely.

Yes, more wars and deaths have been attributed to religion than for all other reasons combined........ BUT it is also in the name of religion that man has achieved his greatest charity works and love and all that is good.

(PS no one forces or should ever force a kid to say GOD in school during the pledge. Hell, when I went to school and we were taught to say it every morning before school started, 1/2 the kids just mumbled through it anyway.)

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"