Why sit?

I’m sure that everyone in America is familiar with its pledge of allegiance, as students recite it everyday in public, and most private, schools. The words of it are embedded into the memories of every citizen from kindergarten on up. As most of the students are Christian of some sort, they are not offended by the words “under God.” However, I believe that most of them don’t realize what they are saying. The phrase “One Nation, under God,” combines the democratic government of America with one of the main monotheist religions, Christianity, Judaism, or Islam, or one of the not-so-popular ones. America could have been a country where the citizens of the United States were all Christians (as it was the widely accepted main religion of the US), but it allowed anyone to migrate to the country, accepting all the different belief systems that America wasn’t accommodated for. Because of this, America has had to adapt to the differences and try to make everyone happy. If you want to show that you too, accept people despite their beliefs, then protest the pledge of allegiance and its demand for the combination of church and state, by sitting silently while your peers accept the invitation to stand for the pledge, and recite it. The big problems in the world start from technicalities, and we already have enough problems. Get it changed before it causes one.

Why should I stand, when it stands for a belief that I am against?