Thread:CreddieCupcake/@comment-4542190-20120603190849/@comment-4196911-20120605131618

You're agreeing with me.

The motto was changed in the 1950's, the same time they added God to the money. Wrongly, in my view.

I never said the American people weren't religious. It's irrelevant to my opinion. The law should protect everyone equally, ebven if they aren't part of the majority. A majority of Americans were in favor of slavery once, or denying women the vote. It doesn't matter. The majority can and has been wrong.

I don't care if atheists are a minority, the government should treat religious and non-religious Americans exactly the same, and part of that includes not endorsing God-belief on official documents. It's none of the US government's business whether I believe in God or don't beleive in God. They shouldn't take a position on the question.

I never said Jesus was against money or merchants, he was against mixing the sacred things of God with money. My opinion is that Congress was wrong to put "God" on money, and nothing in my previous post is factually incorrect. Orthodox Jews are even against writing the name of God in full, as they consider it a violation of the Sacred. Even more so do they dislike the name of God being printed on something non-sacred that is being used for buying and selling.

The US Constitution - the Law - is completely Godless, and deliberately written and ratified that way.

Thomas Jefferson used the word "Creator" in the Declaration, but that's a non-binding document with no legal standing, and the "Creator" he believed in was the Deistic God of the Enlightenment, NOT the God of Abraham. Jefferson was not a Christian, and many of the Founders were of like mind to him. He even took a scissors to the New Testament, took out all the miracles including the Resurrection (which he didn't believe in), and published it as the "Jefferson Bible." All this is well-known.

There is a reason the Founders considered E Pluribus Unum the national Motto, NOT In God we Trust.

I know that Courts have made all kinds of decisions about things like God-on-the-money being perfectly legal and Constitutional, I am simply of the opinion that these things are decided incorrectly and I disagree with them.

If a private citizen decides he wants be unashamed of Jesus on Earth, that's his business. It's not the business of the US Government to be officially either ashamed or unashamed on his behalf. They should stay out of it.