If you don't care, you don't have to bother, but for those of us who can't stand the flagrant violation of separation of church and state...
Will you mark "GOD" off of paper currency whenever you can? You know, with a pen or a marker, etc. You don't have to do anything else to the currency (though I write "KEEP CHURCH & STATE SEPARATE" on most bills I handle).
I promise, you won't be prevented from spending it.
2007-04-18 07:39:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Been doing that for about 3 years already...
2007-04-19 19:23:37 · answer #1 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nobody is more of a non-believer than I, but strangely enough having God on my money doesn't bother me at all. I simply don't notice it.
If I see something that I want to buy, and the store owner takes my money in exchange, that's all that I require.
Because I don't believe in God doesn't mean I should go out of my mind on seeing or hearing the word. I'm a heck of a lot stronger than that.
Sorry, I won't take the time, or make a fool out of myself by defacing our currency. If you care to, though that's your business.
2007-04-18 08:04:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, that's not a bad idea.... But, the symbols on the money are all Pagan. As well as the symbols used in Court rooms, Gov't Buildings (Lady Justice is one that I find rather ironic, since so many in the States claim God is a he and the Courts and Laws are "Christian")
2007-04-18 08:59:17 · answer #3 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Treasury says,
Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or
unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank
bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national
banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal
Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note,
or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined
under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Yes but there is justification for the action.
Get A Grip.
2007-04-18 07:50:35 · answer #4 · answered by Get A Grip 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've done that a few times and I've run across one of yours once, I think. LOL! Most times, I just don't have time to do that, though. And the "not defacing public property" thing usually stops me from doing it... while I don't like having god on my money, it feels wrong to write on it.
2007-04-18 07:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
money is quite, very grimy. There use to be this teach on MTV reported as "city Legends" and definitely one of them grow to be approximately money and what's on it. they stumbled on lines of human feces and animal wastes, urine, puss, semen, vaginal fluids, and approximately 4 hundred,000 germs in line with sq. inch. Even worse, they stumbled on cocaine on it, meaning somebody rolled it up in a slender tube and snorted their drugs with it. Yuck. And my mom stuffs it down her bra, so think of all the boob sweat from the different billion women people who do the comparable element. the girls on the Wal Mart i pass to placed on latex gloves on the sign up. i do no longer blame them, yet no person has actually caught a disease from money. except you attempt to consume it, then i think of we are all risk-free.
2016-10-03 04:54:55 · answer #6 · answered by schenecker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually think it's good that "god" is on the money. It's all that religion seems to be about anyway: money.
In my country "god" is only on the side of the coins. Little too much trouble to scratch it off.
2007-04-18 07:46:50 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I will just write E Pluribus Unum on the money. That was our national motto pre-1954 and it still should be.
2007-04-18 07:44:44 · answer #8 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think that having it on U.S. currency is a hoot, what with how it got there. If you don't know read my answer here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak0KzISYOlVKq5qGIAA8NfTsy6IX?qid=20070418114842AAR4u3m&show=7#profile-info-AA11352649
Peace out.
2007-04-18 08:42:41 · answer #9 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was all down to a misprint anyway. It was supposed to read:
INGOT WE TRUST
...which makes a lot more sense, referring as it does to gold ingots. After all, you can trust in the value and reality of gold, whereas god is unreal.
On second thought, maybe it's a government conspiracy to devalue money by making it less real. There is no denying that the value of the dollar started falling when this 'misprint' started appearing on the currency.
2007-04-18 07:44:56 · answer #10 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋