Is the Pledge of Allegience a form of idoltary?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes. Hence I refuse to ever say it (not that it's been an issue for 12 years.) However I also refuse to salute the flag ever on the same grounds. (including during the National Anthem at sporting events or whatever.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Let me give another example. My car is basically a hand-me-down from my parents. At one point they had a small American flag waving from the antenna, but it got rather frayed, so they just stuffed it somewhere in the glove compartment and forgot about it. I found it once while cleaning my car. It was too frayed to the point of not being suitable for display anymore (not that I would anyway), so I tossed it in the garbage with the rest of the junk. I didn't burn it or carry any elaborate ceremony to "properly" dispose of it, and why should I? To actually oppose disrespecting the flag (malrespecting is probably a better term for me) sort of implies that it violates some type of moral standard which if you're Christian thus implies that God has given some sort of favoritism to the US (then again many conservative Christians DO seem to believe this.) I'm not going to show any level of respect to symbols of secular institutions anymore than I'm going to to any of my band shirts. As far as I'm concerned leaving an American flag on the floor is no different from me leaving my band shirts laying around on the floor.