capitalize anything in speech? How do you enforce a specific capitalization in someone's thoughts? That first objection doesn't necessarily apply in general anyway, as persons from different cultures may well refer to their deity as the 'one, true God' and generally do.
Your second point I will grant, as the religions which focus on diverse entities or forces don't necessarily refer to any particular god. From another viewpoint, however, you could say that any belief (or dedication to refusing belief in an external entity) becomes the believer's 'god' in and of itself, be it a focus on nature, rebellion against the idea of any god, money, etc.
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is not that it wasn't in the original pledge... that's simply a rallying cry for those battling against it... it's more the fact that those same people must find something, anything to protest and cry 'discrimination' against.
Freedom... you have that freedom to reject any religion. Are the beliefs of many so insecure that the very idea of someone else potentially implying another 'God' is transcendent distresses them? We're not going to know, one way or another, until one god or another manifests and says 'hello!'. |
