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I see it as a balancing between the duty owed to God and to the state. Maybe trying to achieve the golden mean.
Notice that the SCOTUS rejected the plaintiff’s claim on technical grounds. With more leftists on the SCOTUS, I expect soon the pledge may be outlawed.
Agree that it is tough to take the position that you agree with the communists and reject His commandments, then hold yourself out as a Christian.
But I reject the “You’re a flag worshipper!” position. This is the greatest country on Earth. Preachers, priests and rabbis don’t give us the right to freedom of worship: soldiers, sailors and airmen did and do, and the same people who attack the pledge of allegiance and Old Glory itself are degrading our armed forces and threatening the natural right of the people to keep and bear arms.

By saluting the flag, IMHO, admittedly we inculcate in young Americans the importance of dedicating ourselves as a people to the proposition—that this novel modern experiment in the notion that people are capable of governing themselves—is viable and ongoing.
So the rub: patriots accused of being statists by Christians, while the idea of America and the Bill of Rights balances on a knife’s edge.