er religions, but it still would not do anything for atheists. For this reason, it is better to just leave the phrase "under God" out of the Pledge altogether. As the constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This can, and should be taken to mean that government should not endorse any specific religion, and should not have religion influence the decisions of government. We only have to look as far back as the past decade to see that government decisions based on religion can be harmful. Israelis and Palestinians have been in a religious war since the 1930's, motivated simply by a religious land dispute (Timeline of Palestinian Israeli Hist
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