The Pledge...Ruled Unconstitutional..

[Jin]

The pledge is not unconstituational. Just forcing someone to recite it is. I think it's fine if they say it in school, or at public events as long as they don't force anyone to say it.

If a person believes that there is no God that's fine, they have the right to, but the thing I don't get is why they feel that they have the need to sway others beliefs as well. If they believe there's no God and no after-life, what good does it do to change others people's beliefs because according to them we'll just not exist after we die.

In my opinion athiests that are trying to ban the "under God" part are just trying to get others to believe that there is no God. If they didn't want to change peoples opinions at all, and strongly believed that there was no God they could easily just ignore those two words and not say them at all.

Remember, no one is forcing them to say these two words, nor is anyone required to say any of the pledge, but for some reason a few athiests feel as though they have the need to convince people that their belief is correct. This is true with all religions, but my question is what good does it do to convince people that there is no God? It's not like they are going to save them from consequences in the after-life. All they're doing is getting others to believe that there is no importance in human life, that once you die you wont exist and that your existence had no meaning, that your one and only purpose was to pass down genes to the next generation. I think it's fine for a person to believe that, but I don't see any reason why they need to convince others to believe in it as well. All those people are doing is making others feel hopeless.