[Justin]

Frankly, as an Atheist, I think that it's important to observe my right to be an atheist, as well as it's important to observe your right to not be. As for the prayer in schools topic, if I don't believe in God, why should I be forced to pray to him? However, I don't think it's fair to restrict your ability to pray to whatever God it is that you believe in. I always liked the system we had in school. Every morning we had two minutes of silence for silent religious observance, if we so chose.

Do I believe it's necessarily appropriate that our currency says "In God We Trust"? No. But, it's a saying. You're not forcing a religion upon me. Do I believe that the US is a Judeo-Christian nation? No. I don't believe it ever was. By the same logic used in the video posted above, the US still supports slave labor. Here's how: slavery was legal when we were founded as a nation. We still allow companies to trade in this country that outsource work to other nations that use sweatshops, etc.

But, honestly, I don't think this is anyone's attempt to "rewrite history", it's something that a group of people truly believe will benefit our nation and our freedom. I believe it's a load of crap, because I believe that those phrases are important parts of our history, and they're open to interpretation, but that particular group of people are simply trying to do what they believe will benefit our nation, much as many of you are by defending the placement of those messages.

To elaborate a bit more on the "Under God" in the Pledge bit, that has both a religious and a historical context. One could argue that "One nation, under God" means that we were born of religion, and looking at history, we were. Much of our society is based upon the teachings of religion, and one can appreciate the historical value of that, and adhere to the teachings of Jesus, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster without believing in any of those Gods.