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I believe there are alternative options for non-religious individuals when taking the oath in a court of law. I'm not sure on the specifics though. I'am disturbed by the forced secularist agenda in our society. If it isn't broken don't fix it. I don't think there was great strife between the religious and non-religious in this country in the past. But I do think this forced secularism stuff will tear people apart.

"If it isn't broken don't fix it." Precisely why the Pledge should have remained as it originally was, without "under God" in it. Precisely why the National Motto, E Pluribus Unum, should have remained as it was, instead of "In God We Trust." The Founding Fathers could have chosen a religious motto, but they chose a secular one instead. They knew what they were doing. The U.S. went through World War I and II and the Great Depression using the Godless Pledge and "E Pluribus Unum" as the National Motto, and what was the harm? What was "broke" then about them that needed to be "fixed?" The Founders also didn't put "God" on their coins, either, and the idea was thought to be blasphemy by some in those days -- even up until Teddy Roosevelt's time, who didn't like the idea either, thinking it cheapened the idea of God.