I Don't Get Email

Stephanie Zvan

Well, not chain emails anyway. If I were a believer, I’d think this made me beloved of the gods.

My mother, on the other hand, gets emails.

First, let’s start with where I’m coming from. Back in junior high, I came across a bumper sticker I kept for decades: “In God we trust. All others pay cash.” That’s my kind of sense of humor.

Lately there’s been way too much attention to whether and where those first four words appear. A couple years back, there was a big bruhaha about the new dollar coins. Email chains were going around posing a boycott because those words didn’t appear on the coins. Of course, the idiots proposing said boycott didn’t seem to realize that the rim of the coins, where the words did actually appear, were actually a part of the coins!

Last night, prior to the Super Bowl, another idiotic chain proposing a boycott was going around. Rich and Brenda were sitting there with me, in preparation for watching a commercial blitz – who cared about the game? – and got the chain a couple times. Was this another government-related item? Oh no, this time it was about… wait for it… Pepsi!

If you read the rest of that, you’ll see where I get some of my snark.

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I Don't Get Email

About the author

Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions. Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird. Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
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6 thoughts on “I Don't Get Email”

  5. hotshoe
    5

    I think it’s funny that fundies get hyped about “In God We Trust” on money. Didn’t their very own Jesus throw the moneylenders out of the temple? Why on earth would they want to taint their god by associating it with dirty money?

    Me, I cross out the word “God” from”In God We Trust” and replace it with “Reason” on every dollar in my pocket. When I’m traveling and pay in cash, I’ll quickly do it at the register as I get my change. I just smile and say “It’s atheist money”.

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