Apparently, an unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without "In God We Trust." Seems like a good development.
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We're in a war, we're looking at a looming mortgage crisis, and I can tell you that our educational system is getting flushed down the tubes, and what does our brave congress do? Why, it decides to make the words "In God We Trust" bigger on our coins.
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The whining about where the new dollar coins will contain the word "God" is too silly for words. Consider the opening sentences of a letter in today's Journal World:
I would like to know whose stupid idea it was to take "In God We Trust" off our new dollar coins.
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American currency uses the phrase "In God We Trust" which is a clear violation of the First Amendment of the US Constitution. This is to the First Amendment roughly like saying "No Guns Allowed" everywhere would be to the Second Amendment, but if we did that to the Second Amendment people would be…
would have been nicer if they'd "accidentally" written the word Liberty back on it instead.
i'm with Ed on the coins - the statue is not necessarily as strong a symbol for Liberty as the word itself, especially as the open borders that it represented for so many of our ancestors is now treated by many in power as an anachronism and a root cause of all our problems.
E-bay prices are proving that US coins without "In God We Trust" are worth more than those that are theistically stamped. It would be nice to say that this is an indication of popular preference.
I'm all for removing it because I don't want the government corrupting the church. But maybe they could leave the "We Trust" part, or perhaps "In the Universe We Trust." Well, I suppose it would be more honest to say "In money we trust" or perhaps "Might Makes Right".