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[quote]The Freedom From Religion Foundation mounted a lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department and other government officials this week, claiming that they are discriminating against nonbelievers by including the phrase "In God We Trust" on the nation's currency.
"Our government is prohibited from endorsing one religion over another but also prohibited from endorsing religion over nonreligion. The placement of a monotheistic ideal on our nation's currency violates this stricture and is therefore unconstitutional," FFRF Co-President Dan Barker said in a statement.
Along with 19 other plaintiffs, the FFRF argues in the lawsuit that they "are forced to proselytize -- by an Act of Congress -- for a deity they don't believe in whenever they handle money."[/quote]
I fully agree with this lawsuit. I think that it's pretty clear that printing "In God We Trust" on money violates the idea of separation of church and state. A secular entity should not be spreading the idea of trust in a deity (any deity), especially not through something that everyone has to use.
This idea is not anti-religious. It is the same principle as to why I don't learn about human anatomy in my Shakespeare class. It's not that there's anything wrong with learning about anatomy, that class just isn't the time or place for it. Something printed by the government is not the place to declare that "we" (whoever that refers to) "trust in" a deity, when that is not true in many cases.
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And once again, people get a pissy over something utterly trivial.
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I don't see a problem with this. It wasn't originally on our currency anyway. People always say that the US needs to go back to its traditional values. Well that includes removing "under god" from the pledge, "in god we trust" from our currency and changing our motto from "in god we trust" back to "E pluribus unum".
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Edited by Arky: 3/13/2013 5:35:07 PMIf money offends you because it has "In god we trust" on it, go give it to a homeless person, and see how much he cares.
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Edited by Funkbrotha10: 3/13/2013 5:35:28 PMGood luck with that. I am an atheist and I give no fucks if it says "in god we trust" on my money. I don't trust in god. But I use the money anyways SUCK IT GOVERNMENT IN YO FACEEEEEEEE
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Good.
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I agree with this.
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I think people need to get over it.
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Ugh people like this annoy the shit out of me.
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[quote]the idea of separation of church and state[/quote]Where is this made a requirement?
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Needs to happen