A Religious Motto Isn't Religious?
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- How did “In God We Trust” became our national motto? Our staff explains the history of the motto and why it was added to our currency.
Learn more about the Freedom From Religion Foundation at ffrf.org.
I decided not to be a member of American Legion when I learned that their slogan is "For God and Country". No veteran ever fought for a god or goddess, but plenty of us have fought for our Constitution and Country. Their motto ignores the approximately 1/3 of Americans who do not believe in a religion or are non-religious.
In fact, when people join the military, the Constitution is the only thing they're sworn to protect and defend. I look forward to a time when veterans' organizations reflect a fully secular background.
I called my Congressman last night and talked to a staffer who thought the idea of going back to the original Motto and how I explained it might be of interest to our Dem. Congressman .
Learn what that motto is pointing towards and you life will change. You will more than likely become extremely pissed off because of what they have done to people using the game of words and symbols.
I am declaring the United States a Mike Pence "free zone".
"In God we trust" replaced "E pluribus unum" in 1956.
Latin for "Out of many, one" - a traditional motto of the United States, appearing on the Great Seal along with Annuit cœptis and Novus ordo seclorum, and adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782.
174 years of a secular motto replaced by a religious motto.
An unconstitutional act of Congress spearheaded by Christian conservatives seeking to establish a Christian theocracy.
We are on the fast track to becoming a theocracy.
A theocracy is never a good idea.
I do wonder if my expressions betray me when someone speaks of their religion to me.
I feel a level of disgust inside; I do try not to show it on the outside.
I can see we are in very good hands. My contribution for the Nation's motto..."We the people." Works for all? Doesn'it?
Not sure how someone can claim "non religious" senate and then say his favorite person is Jesus.🤷🏾♀️That seems to be "on the line" so that all votes come in to him.
Religion is used every where for gaining political ends,though the religionist even dont know the ABC of their prayers ,faith and the books .
The favorite word is bucks je$u$
In my nearly 20 years as an actual Active Duty military member, we never had 'Fairy Tale' books with our MIA/POW Missing Man table settings.
We can always place a million bumper stickers that says E Pluribus Unum on our cars etc. If you make it popular again, why anything cam happen.
Thank you FFRF for your beneficial efforts.
I'd really like to see that stopped someday!
is the Koran excluded too? time to stop all religious tax free status
If religious fanatics weren't so insecure with their beliefs they wouldn't demand that we put "in god we suck" on money, monuments, schools, etc.
And these apologists are always asking atheists "why do you care about something you don't believe in?" Well, this motto is your answer.
Next they will try to install blasphemy laws.
When I was a kid I thought that “In God We Trust” means that Americans worship money as God.
Upset seeing "In God We Trust" on Police, Sheriff and Fire vehicles, on the Court House (Bibles to swear on too), on our car license tags and some "prayer before non-religious meetings here in North Carolina.
I'm in the military, I've seen many missing-man tables. The tradition is that you set up a table, with a plate on it, and you put a tiny amount of food on the plate. The idea is that you're still expecting him to come home, so you've got food all ready for him. You put food on the table, a bible has nothing to do with it....
We need to stop this anyway we can. There is no difference between radical religions no matter what religion we are. Everyone should scratch out the “god” on their money by the way as this should never have been done in the first place. Federal money, no federal religion, period. Protect our constitution.
That's an awesome idea.
Faith is a piss poor substitute for thinking.
Pence? Pro Constitution? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
America: Where we put God ON the mammon!
Yelp. They [American "christians"] worship their God & serve the mammon blindly, and self-congratulatory.
Interesting question is if "In God We Trust" is not religious, what then is the secular reason it is being put up? That is the reason it is actually legal. Would 'Mary had a little lamb' be just as effective?
My 1st question to FFRF is this: Why is Project Blitz happening NOW, really? My guess is that the gay marriage decision (Obergefell v. Hodges 6/26/2015) was the epicenter of the kerfuffle that caused evangelicals to go ballistic. Their heads exploded, apparently, and their subsequent ridiculous and aggressive legislative agenda/handbook launched.
My 2nd question: Won't Project Blitz backfire eventually? These kinds of agendas work for a while when they're unnoticed, but a fierce reckoning comes later once a sufficient mass of affected parties gets involved and vocal.
Which are the "mandated" states?
Worried about the motto? Sponsor legislation advocating for religious liberty recognition: there are many Gods trusted in America, so make the motto more inclusive by adding the S to God. Let the motto be: "In Gods we trust."
Then grab popcorn and let conservative christians do your job by arguing separation of churches and state.
That sounds like a very good idea. Any thing that make the religinuts get a mind explosion.
I say cross out the god word on every bill (money) you get!
When I have time, I will take my bills and write In GOOD We Trust. It's perfectly legal.
Also, since Jews refer to their god as Yahweh and Muslims as Allah, the only people who refer to their god as GOD are christians. This is certainly respecting an establishment of religion.
edit: hey! that guy just made the same point I made! awesome!
I was just going to ask about The Family, it's crazy scary!
I cross it out on every bill I have.
NO bill HB 577 actually requires the motto placed in a prominent space in Missouri schools....your map is needing correction
A one or none, god system,that iz the question. The Constitution iz not fully clear to the godly. Why?, and don't they know why it cannot count in our laws?
In the long run, Education to cancel religion's power helps.
Ty FFRF.
"The Constitution iz not fully clear to the godly. Why?"
It is clear.
It is just being ignored.
Who knew Margret Attwood was a prophet?
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Where's my atheist bible??!!
In God we trust --- all others must pay using cash ---FTFY
I thought the motto survived the courts because it doesn't establish a single religion?
It's exclusionist.
I see it as more of a slogan than a motto, like: M&M’s Marketing slogan - Melts in your mouth, not in your hand.
Still though, if it was "In Gods We Trust", it would definitely fail a single religion test, and be more truthful too since not everybody is Xtian. ☺
Praise not Jesus
Religion is an orthodoxy, belief in a god or gods and a set of rules associated with that God or Gods. The phrase "In God We Trust" doesn't make a reference to an orthodoxy. You would need to prove that vague belief in a God is an orthodoxy in and of itself. In other words that a set of rules are associated with the saying "In God We Trust". That seems like an uphill battle.
As an atheist, I don't trust in God. America is a secular country founded by a secular constitution.
Atheists have rights in the U.S. also. We have no god or gods. Therefore, any mention of god on federal property(money) is unconstitutional.
Religion is the belief in a superhuman controlling power, especially a god or gods.
A specific denomination may, or may not, have an orthodoxy attached to that, but it isn't the defining factor.
The god in ‘In God We Trust’ is meant to be in the Deistic sense of the word where whatever you perceive to be your creator is your God. It is interchangeable with nature and has to deal with natural law so its not really a religious message, but more about secular inclusion.
In god we trust, all others pay with cash.
No one believes you. Atheists have no god therefore it is discriminatory for us. 20 percent of the U.S.
Utter bullcrap
Sigh.... This is the legal argument given, but I can assure you that the average Christian on the street (and everyone else) sees it as being specifically the Christian god. I can also assure you that I, as an atheist, do not conflate it with nature; to claim that it is is blatant dishonesty in support of an agenda.