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Father Heathen
Veteran Member
If you trust god, fall backward and let him catch you.
tytlyf
Not Religious
The only foolish thing is putting religion on secular currency in a secular country. Keep your religion private and out of the secular government.
We've been doing great since 2009. Good luck
Skwim
Veteran Member
Oh god, please don't give them any ideas! Now we're going to see that on our credit cards!
Actually, it could be even worse. Every financial transaction will require a voiceprint command in which everyone will be required to say "In God we trust." For transactions over $1000, singing "God Bless America" will be required.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
If god wants to have a hand in government, he can apply for citizenship and then once naturalized either vote in elections or run as a candidate, just like anyone else.
God is not religion.
God is not
religion
Shad
Veteran Member
I think it should be reverted as well. The current motto is pandering from a bygone era and the fact is it is not a credible view given American history.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Everything you think you know about "god" is nothing more than unsubstantiated presumption and empty speculation; which is precisely what religion is.
Our coins say "D. G. Regina," short for "Dei Gratia Regina" ("Queen by the grace of God")... so we have similar issues and then some.
However, we don't have separation of church and state here in Canada, so the motto is merely offensive, not illegal.
Only to those who care not to go looking.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
People mistake pyrite for gold.
Yeah, well lately it seems that nothing much except overheated rhetoric flies down there...
But never for President...that has a birth nation requirement to it.
Yes, that's true. Still, it doesn't presume to exhort anyone to "trust" in that "Deus."
And anyway, that notion of "divine right" kind got watered down when Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV) usurped Richard II's crown. Really, the D.G. is just a formalized holdover from a bygone age.
tytlyf
Not Religious
God is the creation of religion. Ever read the bible?
God doesn't exist outside religion.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
do you believe we can pay the national debt?
The bible teaches spirituality. It does not teach religion.