I just got this email -
I just read on an AOL headline, scanned thru because I did not like what it was called..the "Godless Coin"
which naturally means, the words "In God We Trust" is not on the coin at all. As far as I am concerned, I will not accept this coin and I feel we should all do the same thing.
I refuse to let this little group of "Twerps" for a better word tell me and my country what to do. Our Freedoms are leaving us everyone and I for one do not like it. We must fight back any way we can.
It's an unfortunate situation, we let "these" other people come to OUR COUNTRY, and they are telling us what to do, but what bothers me more is that we are cowering down instead of standing up for our beliefs.
Should people be ticked off over this?
2007-06-20 05:13:07 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. It was an accident. I wish they all did not have them on it.
Oh, I was born here.
2007-06-20 05:16:29 · answer #1 · answered by Reported for insulting my belief 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
1. It was a striking error, not the way the coins were supposed to be.
2. Why do we have 'In God We Trust' on our money anyway? it was added in the 1950's (not the 1800's like another poster said) because people were afraid communism would spread. Great reasoning skills, there.
3. Our country was not founded on christianity, it was founded on religious freedom.
4. Where can I get me some of those 'godless' coins? I want more!
2007-06-20 05:31:37 · answer #2 · answered by Mi Atheist Girl 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Is it really so that as a people we trust God? Sorry to say but I don't think it is. There are millions of unsaved men and women across the nation. Most look at God's judgment as being a big scale. If you have more good than bad you go to heaven and the opposite if the bad out weighs the good. Most have no idea Salvation is a free gift offered to them through the blood Jesus shed on the cross. So it's doesn't bother me that such a people would leave the statement off US coinage.. Jim
2007-06-20 06:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My first impression was that this was an urban legend, but I wasn't far off. It's nothing more than an unintentional misprint.
I'll still be a Christian whether the words are on bills and coins, so it doesn't particularly matter to me either way.
2007-06-20 06:27:35 · answer #4 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm only ticked because dollar coins don't circulate worth a crap and the odds of actually seeing any misstrike in a dollar coin are pretty low.
I'd take them, you can be your bottom dollar I'd take them. They're numismatic gold if they exist.
Edit: Oh yeah, I'd also be happy if we forever removed that phrase from our currency. I don't think it's a good idea to mix sacred and profane like that and I'm surprised anybody thinks it's a good idea.
2007-06-20 05:39:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is around the edge of the coin not on the face of it. And, I don't think it is something to be ticked off about.
2007-06-20 05:18:53 · answer #6 · answered by sparkles9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I suppose you could be about as ticked off as the people who do not believe in God who are unrepresented in Congress and have to send their children to public schools who openly pledge alleigence in the name of God and have to use all money with God on it.
Oh wait, I forgot, it's all about you and what you believe because democracy is all about promoting what the majority wants.
2007-06-20 05:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by <Sweet-Innocence> 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Twerps" Can we all feel the love now?
Who exactly are "these" people who came to this country and are "telling others what to do"?
I was born here. My husband, also an atheist, defends this country and people's right to call us twerps.
2007-06-20 05:26:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Dollar coins? Where, When? Who? Never heard of them.
2007-06-20 06:59:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it’s great. Making our country secular again like our forefathers intended.
“we let "these" other people come to OUR COUNTRY”
--Hate to be the one to tell the guy, but we aren’t new. We’ve been here for a long time and this is our country too.
2007-06-20 05:20:37 · answer #10 · answered by A 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's mostly an urban legend -- for generations to come, people will know they aren't in Soviet Russia because of (and apparently only because of) our currency and pledge.
But by all means, this shouldn't interfere with anyone's persecution complex.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp
2007-06-20 05:17:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋