[hobbes1]

I wrote to the School system and suggested they use this instead..

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Exactly. On another thread, I tried to explain this to a self-proclaimed atheist:

Read Locke's 2nd Treatise. God is the foundation of natural law. Natural law is the foundation of the United States. Without God's natural law, law is arbitrary, man-made, and rights can be revoked at any time by any of man's governments.

Without natural law, rights mean absolutely nothing. Zero.

That's what "under God" means.