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For the second time, Michael Newdow has trumpeted his atheistic view of the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses and convinced a federal judge to rule that it is unconstitutional for school kids to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Atheist Jim Lindgren, blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy, said he feels that “[t]he words “under God” have no business being in the Pledge of Allegiance, no matter how religious the country currently is or was.” A reader made the following astute comment:

I have no problem with the idea, but can we change the phrase “under God” to “under Allah” for us Muslims?

Touché.

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