Martin Carr #fundie

Martin Carr #fundie ucsd.facebook.com

There is a boycott on the new one dollar coin because "In God we Trust" is missing from it. Do not accept it as change. Ask for a paper one dollar bill instead. If we all boycott this coin, we can force it out of circulation. We need to keep God in public life and this country must not forget God. Pass this around to your family and friends and email contacts.

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old comment by David D.G.

"There is a boycott on the new one dollar coin because "In God we Trust" is missing from it."

No, the phrase is not missing from the coin -- more's the pity. It's just been moved to the edge instead of the face. I guess that's marginal progress (no pun intended), but it's still present, and it is still unconstitutional.

"We need to keep God in public life and this country must not forget God."

All of our coins and currency still bear your precious unconstitutional motto, foisted on us during an era of hysteria. Where I live, churches are as plentiful as Starbucks. There are billboards all over town that either tout the several local Christian radio stations or carry spurious messages ostensibly from God. There are the aforementioned radio stations themselves, often playing in the background in smaller shops and cafes. There are multiple channels on television dedicated to Christian programming. And in the last few days, we have had a presidential candidate express the desire to make the Constitution more "godly" and a national legislator submit a bill that would lay the groundwork toward doing exactly that -- or that would at least severely weaken the secular protections in the Bill of Rights.

"This country must not forget God"?!? That's like insisting that sailors at sea must not forget water!

~David D.G.

old comment by Horsefeathers

"There is a boycott on the new one dollar coin because "In God we Trust" is missing from it."

Only to those who lack the observational powers of even a rock. Take a closer look Marty.

"Do not accept it as change."

More for me then. I happen to think they're a good idea.

"Ask for a paper one dollar bill instead."

And what will you do when they finally phase out the dollar bill, which is their ultimate goal I believe?

"If we all boycott this coin, we can force it out of circulation."

It worked so well for the Susan B. Anthony coin, didn't it?

"We need to keep God in public life and this country must not forget God."

Fine. As long as it's not on government property you can put your god anywhere you like. Unfortunately for you, coinage is government property and the mention of deities shouldn't be there.

"Pass this around to your family and friends and email contacts."

I'm sure they could use the laugh.

old comment by Septic Sceptic

You know what you American guys and gals should do for maximum lulz potential? Make one out of every three $1 coins with "In God we trust" missing. Cue fundies raking obsessivly through every handful of change they get, just to make sure they don't have any depraved atheist currency.

Alternativly, move the slogan as often as possible, and keep making it slightly smaller each time, until you get a fundy outside every shop, squinting at their dollar coins, with their tongues poking out the corner of their mouths.

Once they have identified themselves by these behaviours, we can declare open season for the first annual Fundamentalist Christian Skeet Shoot.

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What? It's not cruel. They love the persecution. It's like catnip to them.

old comment by Illuminatalie

I read somewhere that dogs are really closely related to wolves, and they are basically nothing but wolves in a state of permanent puppyhood. In a few generations in the wild apparently they revert back to being wolves. Maybe someone here can correct this knowledge with something more accurate.

Possibly religious people are just emotionally scarred people in a permanent state of childhood. The stuff they come up with is so pathetically shallow and infantile sometimes. And where do these babyish ideas come from? Go to their church and you'll hear the priest (i.e. pundit) trying to get them wound up about these stupid non-issues. A few years ago I went home to visit my mother, and I went to church with her, hell, at her age, if it makes her happy, sure I will sit in the building and listen to the gibberish for an hour. No problem. And during his 'sermon', the priest seemed to have something out for Oprah (and talk shows in general). Now, I am not a big fan of talk shows (or TV in general, but that's another story) But I was puzzled why the Grand Ole Oprah got such a pounding, it's not like she pushes negativity, she's just another one dimensional agony aunt to me. I wondered if Ann Flanders was ever the target of such ire.

What was I rambling about? Oh yeah, religious people boycotting money. As if.

old comment by George Washington

Recently, you might have received this email:

U.S. Government to Release New Dollar Coins

You guessed it
'IN GOD WE TRUST'
IS GONE!!!
If ever there was a reason to boycott something, THIS IS
IT!!!!

DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW DOLLAR COINS AS CHANGE

Together we can force them out of circulation.

Please Send to all on your mail list !!!

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However, this information is incorrect. According to snopes.com, this
is a false rumor. The phrase in god we trust has been printed on the
edge of the coin. However, Snopes.com also reports:

*Update:* With the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of
2008, Congress reversed its previous specifications and instructed the
U.S. Mint the move the "In God We Trust" motto from the edge to the
front or back of the presidential $1 coins "as soon as is practicable."
This change will not take place until the ninth coin in the series is
issued in 2009.

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In addition to this, using dollar coins instead of dollar bills
actually saves you money.

"Here's the problem, though. Dollar bills wear out in 18 months.
Coins last approximately 30 years. If you do the math on $1 units in
circulation, you realize that we spend hundreds of millions of
dollars, per year, extra, just to support the dollar bill.

Now granted, in a US budget of over $2 Trillion dollars, maybe the
idea of worrying about a few hundred million is quaint. But I
guarantee you, the question would have come out differently if you had
asked:

"Do you support a federal tax increase of several hundred million
dollars to have a dollar bill instead of a dollar coin?"

Rephrase it how you'd like. I know the "tax increase" word is dirty
(it's certainly a way to lose my vote). Try, "how much would you pay
extra to have a dollar bill instead of a dollar coin?"

(from blog.adamnash.com/2007/02/14/how-rational-are-we-the-dollar-coin-vs-dollar-bill-debate/)

Please use the new dollar coin. You have no reason not to!

Martin Carr #fundie ucsd.facebook.com

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