I popped in Back To The Future, a movie I saw in the theaters when I was 6, and thought, “He’ll probably love this as much as I do.” After Marty McFly’s line of “Holy shit!” hit the screen, that was all he would say for the next two days.

I told him it “wasn’t a nice word”, and did the whole parent thing (turned it off, put on a pixar movie instead. LOL), but throughout it all I understood that he was just being a kid with a new discovery, that just wanted to be cool, and be funny, like the adults in his life he idolizes so much.

Isn’t that first and foremost the way we build personalities of our own?

The phrase "under God" was not added until 1954. So the Baptist minister that wrote the original version of the Pledge didn't feel it necessary to include it. George Docherty, the minister where Eisenhower worshiped, made the suggestion in a sermon to keep it from being a "hollow verse taught to children for memory."

Seems to me that when someone recites the Pledge, it's either sincere or not. Adding or removing "under God" will not make your feelings any more or less sincere.