I've seen it said that people don't have a problem with it being on money, so why do they care about it being in our pledge? First off, the pledge is a silly idea to begin with. What, I have to repeat something over and over again to make me feel like I'm apart of my country? Yeah, that makes total sense, and for the record, I do have a problem with it being on our money as well, it shouldn't be there, we have something that a lot of people refuse to really acknowledge when it comes to how the U.S should run its country, and that is the separation of church and state.
However, the argument that it shouldn't be in there because it wasn't in there to begin with doesn't hold too much water, because if we take that same line of thinking and use it with the U.S constitution, we can easily argue if black people should be treated equally to whites, should woman be allowed to vote, why should we? It wasn't there to begin with.
We shouldn't have a pledge to begin with, Teddy Roosevelt once said patriotism isn't supporting your government, it is standing by your country, and I don't need to talk to a flag to make me stand up for my country. Someone pointed who cares if people get offended, they don't have a right not to be. You are correct, however it isn't an argument with me of whether or not it is "offensive" it is whether or not it is needed, and the answer is no, it isn't needed. Just like ninety, faint "20"s aren't needed on my $20 bill to let me know it is in fact 20 dollars.
I don't think it should be on anything state supported, and why is that? It simply doesn't make sense. How can I say that? Let us dive just gently into the lake of thought on this one. "In God We Trust". Who is -we-? We would be everyone. As the constitution says: "We the people". "We" would include all people, rich, poor, black, white, christians, jews, and yes as horrible as it may sound, (gasp!) atheists. So how does it even make sense that "we" trust in God? We don't, some do. So is it going to say "In God Some Trust?" No, you can't really say that should be there, that makes no sense, because if you put that there, then you should almost have to put up "In McDonald's Most Eat" next to it, just because it's true, right? Yeah, it gets that silly.
Meanwhile, while we argue about this, there are more pressing issues to be solved, so I'll just call it one of the many things America has done in its long standing tradition of being against it's best interest and call it a day.