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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-07-29 under

"Scalia's dissent made an important point, but not the one he intended to make. By using the existence of 'In God We Trust' on coins to justify putting 'Don't worship anybody but Yahweh' in courthouses, he showed that supposedly harmless symbolic laws such as that one pave the way for overt religious advocacy by governments. We may also recall that the elder George Bush suggested that atheists shouldn't be considered citizens, and used the existence of the line 'one nation under God' in the Pledge to justify this." -- [livejournal.com profile] madfilkentist, 2005-06-28

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oh..so...true....

posted by [identity profile] happypete.livejournal.com at 11:45am on 2005-07-29
never mind that "under god" was an afterthought...
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posted by [identity profile] thespian.livejournal.com at 01:10pm on 2005-07-29
except that 'under God' wasn't added until 1954. There's a couple hundred years of precedent, including the founding fathers, yadda yadda, that says otherwise. I'm saddened, though unsurprised that Bush doesn't know this.

In God We Trust wasn't actually added to coinage until the 1860s, during the Civil War (was the result of a writing campaign).

In other words, there's considerable evidence that the Founding Fathers did NOT want this recognition, but it's been tacked on by waves of religious Christians akin to what we're experiencing now.
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posted by [identity profile] dptwisted.livejournal.com at 07:09pm on 2005-07-29
Yeah, I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "50 years UNDER GOD". I'd like to see the rebuttal: "150 years WITHOUT Under God".
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