Oh The Horror: Godless Money

[Vexatious Ape]

It looks like hundreds of new John Adams dollar coins are missing the absurd but mandatory inscription, "In God We Trust". Yes, it's a mistake and the people responsible will be dealt with severely no doubt. It's safe to assume they'll be sent to Gitmo and tortured ruthlessly by blood-thirsty evangelical Blackwater "security" goons drunk on Jesus, and fat with multi-gazillion dollar no-bid contracts. After a year or so of that they'll be boiled in a cauldron of piss while being forced to watch reruns of the O'Reilly Factor.
http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chron.com%2Fdisp%2Fstory.mpl%2Fap%2Fnation%2F4903721.html

[lurky]

1. Clearly the US Mint has been infiltrated

by godless Communist agents provocateur! This could tear apart the very fabric of our society! ;-)

[Vexatious Ape]

2. You're right. Someone needs to call Hannity.

[WCGreen]

3. Thank god they caught it in time....

[Hekate]

4. "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!" ~John Adams

One gets the feeling our Founding Fathers would approve of this omission.

Hekate

> John Adams, the country's second president, was drawn to the study
> of law but faced pressure from his father to become a clergyman.
> He wrote that he found among the lawyers 'noble and gallant
> achievments" but among the clergy, the "pretended sanctity of
> some absolute dunces". Late in life he wrote: "Twenty times
> in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of
> breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds,
> if there were no religion in it!"
> It was during Adam's administration that the Senate ratified
> the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, which states in Article XI
> that "the government of the United States of America is not in any
> sense founded on the Christian Religion."
> From: The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw,
> pp. 17 (1976, North CarolinaPress, Chapel Hill, NC)
> Quoting a letter by JA to Charles Cushing Oct 19, 1756,
> and John Adams, A Biography in his Own Words, edited by
> James Peabody, p. 403 (1973, Newsweek, New York NY)
> Quoting letter by JA to Jefferson April 19,1817, and in reference
> to the treaty, Thomas Jefferson, Passionate Pilgrim by Alf Mapp Jr.,
> pp. 311 (1991, Madison Books, Lanham, MD) quoting letter by TJ to
> Dr.Benjamin Waterhouse, June, 1814.
http://skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id9.html

[Vexatious Ape]

5. What are you implying?

That the Founding Fathers where not a bunch of drooling, snake handling, booger-eating fundies, like Dobson, Rush, and O'Reilly and the rest of the value voters of Red State America? The shame.

[Hekate]

6. They were largely a bunch of Deists & Unitarians.Ain't it awful?

They must have sold their souls to the Enlightenment. :evilgrin:

Hekate

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Have no fear! Chuck Norris is here to save us!

(Warning: you may throw up if you read the whole of his article. Or laugh your ass off. It's difficult to predict an individual's reaction)

Eroding and erasing theistic language in culture is a growing trend. Earlier this year George Washington dollar coins were not only inscribed with the words "In God We Trust" on their edges, but many excluded them entirely! Such minting modifications are a flagrant defiance against theism and a public reflection of the place God is now relegated – to the fringes of society.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55668

[Vexatious Ape]

11. Chuck is a barral of laughs.

I was thinking, instead of "In God We Trust", how about, "We Kill For Oil"?

[ima_sinnic]

8. it is very appropriate to label money with reference to god --

since money is what is worshipped by so many--it IS god.
The Church of the Holy Cash Register is our national religion.

[WinkyDink]

9. Go on; laugh. Then check the prices on e-Bay! Godless pays!

Why, yes, I DID buy a roll and plan to go to my bank later this a.m. for more!

[rasputin1952]

10. What did people do before "In God We Trust" was placed

on currency, it began intermittently during the Civil War, but was not official until the 50's, pushed by McCarthyites no less.

What the hell are these people woriied about money for anyway, it has become their god, and the God they profess to worship will take a pretty dim view on hat anyway. Besides, pushing for Armeggedon as they are, wtf do they need currency for, this whole situation is ridiculous....x(