atheismforthewin
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rulezdaworld0 said:MUCH more accurate!
Well, more so if Bush was still in power.
American greed transcends government. It exists in the sheer abuse of capitalism, only catalyzed by modern conservatism. :ugeek:
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rulezdaworld0 said:MUCH more accurate!
Well, more so if Bush was still in power.
Entropic Particle said:I think the pledge of allegiance is far more sinister to our children than something written on money that not many people pay attention to anyway.
It was, until 1956 when it was officially replaced by "In God We Trust"Marcus said:I always thought the national motto was "E Pluribus Unum"
Marcus said:Actually, I find the very fact that kids thoughout the US have to regularly recite the pledge of allegiance at all far more worrying that the inclusion of the "under God" phrase therein.
Mapp said:Absolutely it must be removed. When Congress put it on the money, they did so in direct violation to every conceivable interpretation of the First Amendment.
^These.Sir Pwn4lot said:This has nothing to do with "it being hard" or "not worth it when Congress could be solving other problems", it's a violation of the United States Constitution, and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to that Constitution. It serves as a blinding example of how the Constitution is readily trampled over by the majority in this great nation, when the founding principle was one of equality amongst all beliefs.
Q-Hack! said:I think most of you are missing the big picture. Is it wrong for it to be on our currency? Yes, but so what. I also couldn't give a rip if some judge wants to put a statue of the 10 commandments in his court house parlor. We need to choose our fights. The real fight right now is the education system. Just getting the various school boards across the country to keep science in the science classes and religion out (or at least separated into a theology class.) That's where our fight should be. The rest will fall into place as time goes on.
The problem with this is that it elicits comments from them like:jus10ls said:I don't think it's really worth rousing up the idiot fundamentalists over something so small.