Question for everyone?

Question

One of the answers I got to a question today was from a religious person, who was saying "why do you God-haters use money that says In God we Trust?"

If every non-believer stopped using money, (assume for a second, that debit/credit/check wasn't available); what would happen?

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not an idiot, I know we would all be unable to buy things, and would have to resort to barter.

Would we succeed, in an economy, that the believers would have us not be in.

Or is the question why do non-believers use money just the rantings of an ignorant (explitive)

Answer 1

Rantings and ravings of people who have no intention of changing anything. By the way, the motto doesn't mean we all trust God, it means that those of us who do believe in God, trust each other to conduct business fairly, and honestly. Infidelity is the issue, not religion.

Answer 2

My idea of "God" and the Christians idea of God are 2 very different things.
So I don't have a problem using any money with the word God on it as long as I don't have to: 1. Believe the way Christians do
2. Go to Church
3. Be told the Bible is the only book I need.
Besides this society is so close to taking money out of the day to day system of doing things. Soon it will be just credits in an account somewhere and the Christians will be losing ground by then anyway.

Answer 3

Well it's not like there's a separate printing press for believers and non-believers is there? It's really not like there's much alternative in our society. The government runs the mint and it would probably cost a lot of taxpayer dollars to change it. We all use the money that's available to us.

Yeah, it's just the rantings of a nutbar!

Answer 4

Its am inflammatory statement, made by those who cannot comprehend God enough to avoid it, and their inability to consider things from anothers perspective. Are they insinuating that Agnostic/Atheists should put an end to the parctice of having it written on bills. If this becomes a point of contention, through the crass behavior of believers, we may have not choice.

Answer 5

Not much would happen. According to a 2002 survey only 1% of the U. S. population is atheist, so it wouldn't be a critical economic crisis.

Especially because atheist would use only credit cards then....

Answer 6

maybe that person ment why does it say in God we trust on the money ?? if a lot of people dont beleive in God why put a statement like that on something so widely used??

Answer 7

As a religious person, I would be willing to fund your expenditure if you gathered every "non-religious" person to follow suit. Jokes aside...it'd be the same result if the middle-class went on strike till taxes relaxed. shut down.

Answer 8

i think the main biblical idea is that the christians are to have all things in common(acts). that way they are truely one.
but, of course, now they all say that's outdated.
this way they can go out and try to scew everyone over like the world(age) does. this is a most blunt and truthful reply from me.
they are not christians.

Answer 9

Yes, the latter and explitive explanation is the correct one. cheers

Answer 10

It does point one thing out .. that it would be a wise endeavour to have that expunged from currency .. Yes,their illconceived idea to incorporate that to an argument .. The proverbial "devil can quote scripture to his purpose" I guess has its correlative opposite, "that selfappointed pompous saints can quote mammon to their purposes" .. lol