If our government removes "In God we Trust"....?

Question

from our money, should we expect them to work on Sundays since its "just another day"? After all, Sunday was originally set aside as a day to go to church.

Answer 1

The Godless have been appeased enough and enough is enough. Actually the Sabbath falls on Saturday.

Answer 2

Well, this one is a candidate for the inane logical fallacy of the day.

One can have a mandated day off (like Saturday, for some industries) without it being "special" in a religious sense.

One of the reasons that we have mandated days off is because of TRADE UNIONS, those "godless, commie" groups that also brought us health benefits, retirement benefits, and occupational health and safety laws.

BTW, although government offices are closed n Sundays, are you actually under the impression that at the highest levels of government that nothing gets done on Sundays?

Riiight. So if there is an international incident on Sunday people around the world know not to call until Monday morning.

If you actually believe that our government shuts down on Sundays, I have a bridge I'd like to sell ya....

Also, one ought to familiarize oneself with the history of how "In God We Trust" came to be on our currency before one makes silly statements like the above question.


Here ya go:

http://www.treasury.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.shtml

Note as you read that it has only been since 1938 that ALL U.S. coins bear that inscription.

EDIT: Oh, it occurs to me that maybe I need to explain something here. The specific logical fallacy above is a "false dichotomy":

"The fallacy of false dichotomy is committed when the arguer claims that his conclusion is one of only two options, when in fact there are other possibilities. The arguer then goes on to show that the 'only other option' is clearly outrageous, and so his preferred conclusion must be embraced."

Answer 3

They can take off whatever day they like. Government offices are closed on Sundays because there is legislation saying that they should close on Sundays. That legislation may have been influenced by Christianity, but it's likely they would have set a day aside even if Christianity had never existed.

Answer 4

It should be replaced with "Through Faith Alone We Place Our Trust In Absolutely Anything" maybe.

"One Nation Under A Religious Delusion"

We can be honest and take the day off to go sailing or tramping in the country...or all the other fun things people do already on Sunday's.

Answer 5

Yes!!

You can't have it both ways. Either Sunday is "Just another day" or it is a "special day."

The problem with it being a "Special day" is that not everyone celebrates the sabbath on Sunday. For example: Jewish people celebrate Friday/Saturday. So why should they be forced to work on their Sabath but everyone else gets Sunday off?

Its disrespectful to assume that everyone celebrates the same things on the same day.

We are either an INCLUSIVE culture or an EXCLUSIVE culture. We cannot hae it both ways and many people forget that.

Besides-- I've got stuff to do and if Sunday's the only day I have to do it, then why should *I* suffer just because some people want to go to church on Sunday??

Answer 6

Sunday wasn't set aside by anyone with government authority. The motto "In God We Trust" & the insertion of the words "Under God" are relatively new in our society. It wouldn't do any harm to remove them at all.

Answer 7

Everyone loves leisure. Everyone wants holidays and more holidays from works. You remember the days of the hippees. They try to have all days like holidays to them. They become worthless. So building in us is a machine that will want to work and not to stay idle for long. So if that happens, Sundays will still be the rest days because they need reat after 5 or 6 days of work.

Answer 8

actually the USDL only designates that no employer of hourly paid amployees may work them more than seven days in a row without a day off--the government is not hourly paid, they are salaried, and with the salaries they make, none of them should ever sleep

Answer 9

Jesus himself said the sabbath was useless.


12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. (12:2-5)
"Have ye not read the law?"
When Jesus and his disciples are accused of breaking the sabbath, he excuses himself by referring to a scripture in which priests who "profaned the sabbath" were blameless. But there is no such passage in the Old Testament.

Is it necessary to keep the Sabbath?
Was David alone when he asked for the holy bread at Nob?

12:3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?


so screw the sabbath!

um, and "in god WE trust," makes no sense because none of us who believe in any god believe in the same exact one, and there are a lot of us who believe in none. so get RID of it!

EDIT:
of course, jesus is flying in the face of this:

Exodus 35:2 – "2 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death."

which contradicts this:

5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law"
Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn't the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. "Till heaven and earth pass"
Jesus says that the Old Testament laws are binding on everyone forever.
Must Christians obey Old Testament laws?

5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Answer 10

I am more concerned with businesses open on Sundays... I mean, I have to get things done!