The country was not founded on Christian belief, but on religious freedom. The reason why the country was created was because in England the Puritan was prosecuted by the king, therefore the Puritan settle in the Americas to seek religious freedom. It is funny though, once the Puritan set up colonies in America, they prosecuted other people who did not follow their own religion, and it is kind of sad how ironic that was. Seeking religious freedom, but in return prosecuted those that did not believe in their own religion even worst then that of the English Parliament.

About the not pledging, it is the individual right of the person to do/not to do so, as burning the flag, (but don’t do that). I remember when I was in Elementary school, every time we rise to pledge the flag there use to be one kid that just sit there, and I always wonder why that was, and people made fun of him because he did pledged like the rest of us. What I’m getting at is, this is country is a majority rule, it is hard, even sometime prosecuted if one go against the norm even if they are right. Ex the Japanese/Germans encampment during WWII, the Black suppressions for the last few hundreds years, and now the Muslims. Some people need to just open their mind, and view the world in more then one dimension and stop making these racial, religious, etc comments, and maybe it be better place to live.
I agree with the comment above there are a lot of ignorance ppl!