Lawsuit to remove "In God we Trust" from currency

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Freedom of religion also contains freedom from religion, no?

I don't like it on there, but I'm practically impartial to it.

There's a simple solution: the government removes old bills and prints new bills all the time. Just slowly change it over. Doesn't work so well with coins that have a much longer lifetime, though.

Shouldn't be in the Pledge, either... but f the pledge all together.
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
Seems like "single parents" is more applicable to a woman getting knocked up by someone who couldn't care less. I think kids in the middle of parental divorce is a completely different issue.
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Or a "ho" getting knocked up by someone that does.
 
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VOLatile said:
Freedom of religion also contains freedom from religion, no?

I don't like it on there, but I'm practically impartial to it.

There's a simple solution: the government removes old bills and prints new bills all the time. Just slowly change it over. Doesn't work so well with coins that have a much longer lifetime, though.

Shouldn't be in the Pledge, either... but f the pledge all together.
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This. Propaganda at its finest. In jingoism and big government we trust.
 
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therealUT said:
What does this have to do with anything?

Growing up, my parents rarely locked the house up. Now, my mother locks the house up like it is Ft. Knox. Nobody has ever attempted to break into their house; no event happened to my mother or my father to cause the change; the difference is that my mother spent a decade watching 24 hour news channels and was inundated with stories of how violent the world is (when, in actuality, it is not).
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Nevermind everyone, truts mothers house has never been broken into therefore all is well.

Meanwhile in reality, my grandparents live in rural MO on 40 acres. In they're time there was no need to lock doors. I even remember a store near them where the owner would leave a cigar box on the counter if he had to step out and people would leave the money for anything they got while he was away. Would that happen today? Is that perception or the fault of 24 hour news?
 
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VOLatile said:
Freedom of religion also contains freedom from religion, no?

I don't like it on there, but I'm practically impartial to it.

There's a simple solution: the government removes old bills and prints new bills all the time. Just slowly change it over. Doesn't work so well with coins that have a much longer lifetime, though.

Shouldn't be in the Pledge, either... but f the pledge all together.
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Freedom of religion means tolerance of religion & no religion. It being on there or not shouldn't be worth the breath to complain about it.
 
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Hopvol said:
Nevermind everyone, truts mothers house has never been broken into therefore all is well.

Meanwhile in reality, my grandparents live in rural MO on 40 acres. In their time there was no need to lock doors. I even remember a store near them where the owner would leave a cigar box on the counter if he had to step out and people would leave the money for anything they got while he was away. Would that happen today? Is that perception or the fault of 24 hour news?
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Do you think people today in rural America on 40 acres need to lock their doors? I mean, what are the odds anything happens to them? Again, I think only perception has changed.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Do you think people today in rural America on 40 acres need to lock their doors? I mean, what are the odds anything happens to them? Again, I think only perception has changed.
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It's safe to leave the door open with just the screen door as long as you have a claymore rigged up.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Do you think people today in rural America on 40 acres need to lock their doors? I mean, what are the odds anything happens to them? Again, I think only perception has changed.
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I added that for perspective. To show they are not in a bad neighborhood or something. What has happened in that area though is the making of meth has exploded. Two years ago the police were chasing a guy on meth and he wrecked in they're front yard. There have been break in's so yes, they do need to lock they're doors now.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Easy fix..don't use money, move to another country where you're free from religion, or stfu. These situations will always occur and may succeed in a country that panders to every minority.
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My goodness what a horrible argument.
 
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Gramps said:
He could any second he chose to, however he grants us the free will to either better or screw up our lives, it is our choice. He will step in one day and say it is over and call all his children home. I am glad that I am one of his children.
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Arrogance.
 
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Hopvol said:
Nevermind everyone, truts mothers house has never been broken into therefore all is well.

Meanwhile in reality, my grandparents live in rural MO on 40 acres. In they're time there was no need to lock doors. I even remember a store near them where the owner would leave a cigar box on the counter if he had to step out and people would leave the money for anything they got while he was away. Would that happen today? Is that perception or the fault of 24 hour news?
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Nobody is saying that violent crimes and crime do not occur today; what is being asserted is that the probability that one will be a victim is much less today than it was 40-50 years ago; yet, the perception is reversed (hence, today, when it is much safer, everyone locks their doors, while 50 years ago, when it was much less safe, everyone left their doors unlocked). I place most of that perception on national news cycles.
 
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Gramps said:
If you would study the Bible, you would read where men prospered greatly by serving God. I don't know where some get that one has to be poor to be a Christians.
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Depends on what prosper means.

Still not sure how true Christians can be wealthy.
 
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therealUT said:
Nobody is saying that violent crimes and crime do not occur today; what is being asserted is that the probability that one will be a victim is much less today than it was 40-50 years ago; yet, the perception is reversed (hence, today, when it is much safer, everyone locks their doors, while 50 years ago, when it was much less safe, everyone left their doors unlocked). I place most of that perception on national news cycles.
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Ok, we disagree. This thinking is based on statistical bs and not reality. Stats can always be spun to one's way of thinking.
 
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Gramps said:
There is still morality in the world , it is less and less every year.

Not many years ago divorce was a rarely thing.

Commitment to a relationship is a thing of the past to the majority. You have mothers and fathers that are divorced or never married in their 30's and 40's pushing their kids to the side, allowing them to do anything they choose so the parent can date or whatever.

Now their children are having babies. "It is no big deal just get you some benefits and out of my house" is the attitude many have. Millions of girls with 2 or 3 kids, all by different boys who has nothing to do with their children, living in a section 8 apartment, on food stamps, Medicaid, strung out on drugs, screwing guys for drugs etc.... That is the morals of millions of our young people today and it keeps getting worse.

These kids will raise their children to believe that is the way the world is and their children will grow up to not know right from wrong.
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Not sure what Christianity has to do with this.
 
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My problem with this is catering to the whims of a vocal minority.

For what its worth, this is the same group that tried to get UT to ban pre-game prayer at football games. UT told them to shove it and cited legal authority allowing them to have the prayer. They went away.

This is a group of bullies that has taken the lack of a belief in a god and turned it into its own militant belief system.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
Depends on what prosper means.

Still not sure how true Christians can be wealthy.
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I don't understand why you think wealthy men can not be Christians.

It is fine for Christians to become wealthy, and there is nothing in the Bible that forbids Christians from gaining large amounts of money. The problem is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil (1 Tim. 6:10).

Jesus said that you cannot serve both money and God at the same time: “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (wealth),” (Matt. 6:24). Jesus is not saying that it is sinful to be rich.

Jesus is telling us that the problem is when Christians start putting their faith, hope, and security in their money (and it becomes their master) rather than God. At this point, they become idolaters and fail to serve the true God.
 
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Hopvol said:
Ok, we disagree. This thinking is based on statistical bs and not reality. Stats can always be spun to one's way of thinking.
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These stats do not come from surveys; they come from actual criminal numbers. Per capita, crime against persons and property was much higher in the 1950s than it is today, and even higher in 1900. That is not spinning anything.

If you disagree, you disagree with reality.
 
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