A few days ago I have received a chain email that warned about apparently the most horrific development that took place in recent history. The government decided to stop printing and engraving "In God We Trust" on US currency. It did not take me long to figure out that this is a bit of a hoax, due to the changed location of the motto on some newly minted coins. Plus some of them were minted without the motto. Honest mistake. But even if the government did decide to drop the motto?Jesus did not really have a problem with the design of coins in his time when they included images of Roman emperors, legally considered divine. Does anyone really think that using a semi-religious slogan on money has anything to do with the course that the country is taking? Does "In God We Trust" on every single bill or coin somehow sanctify the many abominable ways in which Americans and the rest of the world spend their money? Is a drug transaction less or more of a crime when carried out using religious money?
The "In God We Trust" Christians are calling on everybody not to accept "godless" coins as change. I suppose, it should not take long before someone asks folks to send such coins to him, so he may "dispose" of them :)
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Seperartion Of Church And State is a concept that has been abused and misinterpreted. There was nothing politically correct about the Colonists refusal to pay taxes, but they were willing to die for what they believed in. So am I, and as a Jewish man who grew up in the 1950's I am proud to have said The Lords Prayer and Pledge Of Allegiance.
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