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Treasury Sued to Remove 'God' from Currency (In God We Trust)
Worthy News ^ | March 24, 2013 | Joseph DeCaro

Posted on 04/05/2013 8:40:39 AM PDT by xzins

WASHINGTON, DC (Worthy News)– The Freedom From Religion Foundation is suing the U.S. Treasury Department to remove "In God We Trust" from all its currency.

A nonprofit organization that represents atheists and agnostics, the FFRF claims the motto is "offensive" to the nonreligious.

In February, the FFRF and 19 plaintiffs filed a civil suit in New York claiming the motto violates the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution; they also claim it forces atheists, agnostics and secular skeptics to impart a religious message they all decry whenever using U.S. currency, resulting in a false declaration of their own religious views.

Dan Barker, co-president of the Wisconsin-based FFRF, also believes the motto sends a religious message to everyone who uses U.S. currency.

"[In God We Trust] is indeed considered to be a religious phrase," Barker told The Christian Post. "The message belongs in churches, private institutions and can be shared by missionaries, but who is the 'we' representing, if not all of us trust in a God?"

(Excerpt) Read more at worthynews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: atheists; currency; ffrf; god; ingodwetrust; lawsuit; money; motto; radicalleft
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To: Logical me
America is destroyed. Wake up. Only chance we had was Romney.

The only chance we had(have) is in the God in whom we trust.

That's always been the case.

41 posted on 04/05/2013 9:34:02 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Maybe we should sue to remove the Freedom From Religion Foundation from American soil.


42 posted on 04/05/2013 10:06:58 AM PDT by DonkeyBonker (Hard to paddle against the flow of sewage coming out of the White House.)
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To: xzins

Yep...but yet the commies claim it was something that showed up in the 1950s. They thrive on the ignorant.


43 posted on 04/05/2013 10:12:07 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Notary Sojac

if you’re indifferent, then it doesn’t matter to you

meanwhile, there are many people that it does matter to


44 posted on 04/05/2013 10:12:13 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: xzins

Atheist Media Whores at it again. Just like clockwork.


45 posted on 04/05/2013 10:13:00 AM PDT by HKMk23 (Cultures succumb not to ideas, but to superior cultures. Invoke the "Super Culture." Matt. 9:38)
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To: xzins

Might as well put Mr. Moneybags on there because it's not worth much more than monopoly money these days.

46 posted on 04/05/2013 10:30:57 AM PDT by bgill
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To: gunner03

It has already been lost. America has been brain dead for a while so it’s just a matter of pulling the plug.


47 posted on 04/05/2013 10:34:42 AM PDT by bgill
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To: hummingbird

How about “In ? We Trust”


48 posted on 04/05/2013 11:01:42 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Notary Sojac

Your question? “ Does your God appreciate the difference between the slogans a nation mouths and the behavior it exhibits?’. This makes recall of the spirit of Easter just past. I believe that Jesus who I personally take as ‘of my GOD’ took a stand on this issue in many ways. There was the incident of the money changers being chased from the Temple. There was the incident of forgiveness of the sins/acts of the unclean woman and then there are his words differentiating earthly tributes and eternal/heavenly blessings leading up to his crucifixion on the cross. Yes, I believe my God does recognize and appreciate a difference between words and actions or mouths and behavior as you asked.


49 posted on 04/05/2013 11:17:54 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

They may also move to a country that doesn’t offend them and use their money.

When can we explaine to these a$$holes that the constitution doesn’t extend the right to not be offended.


50 posted on 04/05/2013 11:35:48 AM PDT by Big Mack (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat VEGETABLES!)
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To: xzins

IF USA currency is so offensive to you and yours——DON”T ust any of it!!!

Barter for everything you do!!!

Meanwhile, STFU!!!


51 posted on 04/05/2013 12:08:42 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: sten
Do you think it matters to God?

If so, I suspect it is mostly as a marker of hypocrisy, as we have grown more corrupt as a nation each and every year that slogan has appeared on our currency.

52 posted on 04/05/2013 12:38:33 PM PDT by Notary Sojac ('Institutions will try to preserve the problems to which they are a solution.' - Clay Shirky)
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To: xzins

How do these jerks have “standing” to sue but citizens have no “standing” when it comes to immigration reform, ObamaCare, or gun grabbing?


53 posted on 04/05/2013 12:52:18 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: xzins
Just proving once again that "stupid is as stupid does"! Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
54 posted on 04/16/2013 6:21:43 PM PDT by Vernon
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To: Viennacon

Put “In Satan We Distrust” on bills just to aggravate those atheist a-holes, the Left and Muslims...lol


55 posted on 04/16/2013 6:45:46 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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