(January 30, 2012 at 5:31 pm)Hitchslap Wrote:(January 30, 2012 at 4:08 pm)walknh2o Wrote:(January 30, 2012 at 4:02 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:Well, try ordering a T-shirt with front side saying "IN GOD WE TRUST" and at the back side "I'm an Atheist".(January 30, 2012 at 3:52 pm)walknh2o Wrote:(January 30, 2012 at 3:39 pm)Shell B Wrote: This is rigodamndiculous. I can hold a Bible and still be an atheist. /story Go find something else to overanalyze, like why you are pretending to be an atheist.Right on! You can hold a bible and still an atheist, but hold and use dollar bills you legally(by default) enforced the saying written in it "IN GOD WE TRUST".
"We" exclude all 11 million illegal immigrants having dollar bills in their wallets.
"WE" means ALL American citizens!
"WE" doesn't mean the land,country or government.....but ALL American human beings", "WE" the people of U.S.A. "IN GOD WE TRUST"
So we would prefer it not to be there,(not that I have any say being a citizen of the greatest Nation on the planet, the only country with Great in the name Great Britain), It is there.
My shirt said dry clean only and I put it in the washing machine.
Money cant make me trust in god just as my shirt label can't make me fork out a fortune for dry cleaning.
I is a rebel.
People need money, I guess we should we trade clogs of dirt instead.
I'm not gonna let some fake Atheist tell us we shouldnt be using money or we're hypocrites. Fuck that, it's not my fault that the majority stockholder religion of this country is so Christy that they had to put religious propaganda on the currency. I use money and feel no remorse about using it.
I will go out and buy stuff tonight with Atheist attire on buying things in the name of me and my personal Atheism, it in no way supports the christian religion and in fact can be used for Atheism. There's no other way to survive in this country but to make a living making money, unless you wanna be a leech or a fuckin bum your whole life. If you don't want to then tough shit, sack up, drop your pide and make some greenbacks.
Religion will be mostly dead in the next 40 years anyway and the money you know with the In god we trust will be long gone from future currency if any which would just be digital anyway.
Atheists had been fighting the removal of IN GOD WE TRUST and failed.
"One of the first legal actions to challenge religious sloganeering of this type was made in 1978 by American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair. In the case of MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR et al. v. W. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, et al. (462 F. Supp. 19 -- W.D. Tex 1978), the court opined: "Its use is of a patriotic or ceremonial character and bears no true resemblance to a governmental sponsorship of religious exercise." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reached a similar conclusion in the 1970 case ARONOW v. UNITED STATES. Subsequent cases also fell short, even though they argued that the motto clearly encouraged religion and made a statement about god and theology. On September 14, 1988, then-President of American Atheists Jon Murray addressed the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage concerning proposals to redesign the nation's currency. At that time, Murray expressed concern about including "In God We Trust" on the national currency,
