When I was in High School, I would refuse to bow my head in prayer: I'm an atheist and refused to pray to any god, especially while at school, during regularly scheduled school hours. Once, some "Christians" a few seats away from me started eying me and telling me to "Bow your f***ing head you Satan worshiper or we'll kick your f****ing ass!"… This is exactly like that, except this time the "Christians" are "Police" and kicking your ass means telling you what and who to pray to or face police harassment by ejection and threats of bodily harm.

when you gotta go, you 'gotta go'!

Its just a song for God sake. Slavish devotion to symbolism a patriot does not make no matter how a few think otherwise.

Such language from nice christian boys. When I was in grade one back in the dark ages (1960) there was a boy who was jehovah's witness. He was excused from all religious affiliated events like Christmas and Easter, Nobody gave him a hard time about it. We actually felt bad for him. He was just a little boy and the religion was his parents choice. I'm sure we would have been just as accepting of an atheist..