How is it they get away with claiming, "In God We Trust" on all our money, and yet there is supposed to be separation of church and state?
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September 10th, 2010
Courts have been disallowing nativity scenes on/at State and Federal buildings…We are supposedly phasing out the “One Nation Under God” section in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Why is In god We Trust still allowed on our money.
Could it be they are really saying that money is their God, so when they say In God We Trust, they are really saying In Money We Trust?
They in this case being the people who decided what to put on our dollars.
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US Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
And they are not promoting one religion over another.
@WestRiverrat Sure they are. None of thee guys are muslims, hindus, buddhists, nor taoists. They are pretend to be christians.
Your answer is disingenuous at best.
In God We Trust everyone else pays cash
I’m sure its the same reason(s) its not illegal to not pay taxes, yet you still can goto jail ;p
Gotta love the system.
@Ben_Dover It might benefit you to browse American History 101. In the meantime, our constitution guarantees that the state will not establish a religion, notwithstanding the fact that that clause has been stretched way beyond its meaning by your fellow travelers at the ACLU.
Got no cash? Then ben dover.
I’m sure that if you asked a politican, the answer would be that “God” is a generic term, so that no specific religion is being endorsed. However, that answer doesn’t take non-theists into consideration. I do know that the phrase was coined (bad pun fully intended) in the 1950’s as a response to the Cold War paranoia over communism.
@Ben_Dover Pardon…..yet there is supposed to be separation of church and state?
Separation of church and state is not mentioned in the constitution, so your assumption that there is supposed to be such is in error. The constitution guarantees that the state cannot establish a religion, although this guarantee has been stretched way out of proportion to the extent that “separation of church and state” is what the public, you included, think we are entitled to.
Must be them damn Illuminati who penetrated the US government at our national beginnings.
Look at the pyramid-with-eye symbol on the back of every buck. LOL
@lonelydragon LOL…Love the pun. and you make a valid point in re the Cold Wr Paranoia and Communism.
@plethora The courts have gone far beyond what was once a simple sentence in the 1st Amendment. Perhaps It might benefit you to browse American History 101.
@anartist Too close to the mark. Scary, too.
@Tomfafa I have been getting jokes like that since I was 7. Grow up.
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