Is this insulting?

[Thor]

My question is who funded it? Is it funded privately or through public friends?

Good point. And I don't know. I'll have to see if the monument has a marker somewhere that tells who put it up. If it was privately funded I would have less of a reason to squawk about it (although it IS on public property). However, it is STILL rather insulting. It's like they're saying my service doesn't count as much because I don't "serve" a god.

If it is through Government means, it shouldn't say that. But honestly I doubt you'd get much traction because in the grand scheme of violations of separation of church and state, it's pretty minor

Agreed. It is minor. But minor transgressions can set a precedent for larger ones if they're ignored.

and public opinion would demonize you, which is a shame.

You're probably right about this. If I wrote letters and protested the inclusion of "God" on this monument I would no doubt be villified. I'm sure that many people (all believers, of course) would tell me to "get a life" or some such thing. However, I'm sure there would be an outcry if I wanted to construct a monument to veterans with the words "FOR ALL THOSE WHO SERVED BOTH APOLLO AND COUNTRY".

I hope that we can, through efforts of fighting church state separation issues, and showing atheism to be a positive thing, we will eventually wear down the extreme Christian lean of the country so we can be the secular country we're intended to be and insertions of God will be stripped away from money, the pledge, and things of this nature.

+1