I've been talking to a friend about this. I finally asked him how he would feel if it said under allah, gaia, or satan? He didn't like those very much. "So why should your deity get preferential treatment?"

Tha just makes sense!

Then we wouldn't be pledging allegiance to organizations that can Make Money off our obedience, we'd be pledging allegiance to a set of ideals and foundational legal principles, and we'd be motivated to examine those principles carefully. And maybe pass the ERA, or an amendment with language as egalitarian as the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.

Then maybe we'd be interested in giving teeth to that Declaration, as well as our Constitution. And in watching a little more carefully for people who figured their highest calling was gaming the system.

What a wonderful world it would be.

Yes, I'm a bitter idealist. -_-