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Apparently, there are new coins out/or coming out. . . which have DELETED the inscription - "In God We Trust"!!!? If He's out of the picture, in this country . . . who CAN we trust??? Not any politician I've heard of or read about! Would certainly make a statement if we all "choose" NOT to accept these coins!! Don't seem to have many choices left - these days?!!! Think about it. . . so where do YOU stand?! {While you still CAN take a stand!!?!!} :hmmm:
Can you please provide a link or any other evidence for this claim?
Why on earth would you imagine that it's somehow appropriate to endorse some god on our money? The government, including the mints that print the money, is supported by tax dollars from everyone, not just god-believers. Religious freedom means, among other things, that the government doesn't misappropriate its tax revenue to endorse any religion, even theism in general. To do so effectively relegates non-believers to the status of second-class citizen. That violates the Golden Rule! How would you like it if your tax dollars were being used to print money which invoked some god you didn't believe in? Putting "In God We Trust" on money serves no constructive purpose and is a slap in the face of all non-theistic taxpayers. I support your right to believe in some god if you wish, but do not spend my tax dollars to shove him down my throat. Yecchh!
Whatever the constitutional issues, and I'm with Dixon here (although I'm neither a believer or a non-believer, I just don't care) it seems this rumor is only partially founded. It was a mistake. Not an intentional change to "deny" anything. It's also old news. Five years old. Same old internet alarm mongering, how unusual!
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/1750117.../#.T1ns53nWi9s
you're right, but it got me thinking. What if we did it like postage stamps and put different gods on the coins? We're probably done with all 50 states on the quarters (I haven't followed it closely at all - for all I know that's been over for years) but I know we haven't done it with gods! We could even do homages to old Roman coinage - though probably not the ones they used as bordello tokens; that'd go over poorly in Kansas. And there's already Egyptian iconography on our money, so the xenophobic crowds' probably already desensitized. There are way more than 50 gods we could use, so the coin-collectors would be happy for years. Sound like a winning idea.Quote:
Posted in reply to the post by Dixon:
According to my information God is a She.