"In God We Trust" should be removed from US money.

[9-10ths_Penguin]

If that's the case, would you be ok with the government selling Bibles in courthouses or other government buildings? If you allow religious license plates, it opens the door for other religious items to be sold by the government.

I've seen graphic licence plates for everything from sports teams to square dancing. As long as any non-profit group can apply to get their logo on a licence plate, I don't have a problem with a religious group having the same privilege as similar secular groups.

 

[The Seeker]

I've seen graphic licence plates for everything from sports teams to square dancing. As long as any non-profit group can apply to get their logo on a licence plate, I don't have a problem with a religious group having the same privilege as similar secular groups.

Having "In God We Trust" on a license plate isn't promoting a non-profit group, it's promoting religion. I wouldn't object if a particular non-profit religious group, such as Focus on the Family, wanted to issue a license with their name on it.

 

[McBell]

Having "In God We Trust" on a license plate isn't promoting a non-profit group, it's promoting religion.

I agree.
But it is not the government promoting religion UNLESS the government is making the plate mandatory.
Using this logic:

any pharmacy that offers the morning after pill is promoting abortion.

any store selling the Bible is promoting religion.

any store selling guns is promoting violence.

any store selling ski masks is promoting burglary.
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[9-10ths_Penguin]

Having "In God We Trust" on a license plate isn't promoting a non-profit group, it's promoting religion. I wouldn't object if a particular non-profit religious group, such as Focus on the Family, wanted to issue a license with their name on it.

Enh. I've got no more problem with a religious symbol on a licence plate at the request of a church than I do with the logo for a college at the request of the alumni association.

I don't think religious groups should get special treatment on the basis of them being "faith-based", but that goes both ways: no extra benefits than any other group, but no extra restrictions either.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I agree.
But it is not the government promoting religion UNLESS the government is making the plate mandatory.

... or unless they allow the symbol for one religion, but not others.

... or unless they allow religious symbols, but not secular logos.

any pharmacy that offers the morning after pill is promoting abortion.

Or any pharmacy NOT offering the morning after pill is promoting surgical abortion.

any store selling ski masks is promoting burglary.

Or any sporting goods/outdoor store that DOESN'T sell ski masks is promoting frostbite.

 

[McBell]

... or unless they allow the symbol for one religion, but not others.

... or unless they allow religious symbols, but not secular logos.

Agreed.
But merely having them available does not equate promotion.

 

[OutOfTime]

don't worry guys, wait till all our currencies go corrupt and paper money goes useless. you'll be surprised at the speed they change it all to etfs or efts (electronic funds transfer system) when we're all in a depression

 

[Halcyon]

Why can't you just go back to E Pluribus Unum ?

 

[Smoke]

Retrorich of happy memory is gone, but at least we have this thread to remember him by.

He would have been happy to know that in more than 3½ years since he started this thread, nobody has been able to give any coherent and constitutional reason why we should have religious mottoes on our money.

 

[Reverend Rick]

Retrorich of happy memory is gone, but at least we have this thread to remember him by.

He would have been happy to know that in more than 3½ years since he started this thread, nobody has been able to give any coherent and constitutional reason why we should have religious mottoes on our money.

Because we can. :sorry1:

 

[Smoke]

Because we can. :sorry1:

I said "coherent and constitutional reason why we should." I don't dispute the fact that Christians are often successful in running roughshod over the Constitution.

 

[Scuba Pete]

It's not a Christian thang to do this. It's the unholy symbiosis of psuedo-Christianity and Neo-Conservatism that gives way to hatriotism. It all runs on fear: http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/1151177-post121.html