Nothing like a little magic spell distributed via copper coins to save the Union!
(WaPo) That appeared to be the logic Tuesday evening as the House debated whether “In God We Trust” should be the national motto. Of course, “In God We Trust” already is the national motto, guaranteed by an act of Congress in 1956. And “In God We Trust” had already been reaffirmed once before as the national motto, by another act of Congress in 2002. Still, on Tuesday, the House spent 35 minutes debating whether the motto should be re-reaffirmed. Many lawmakers threw their heart into the debate, even though it was a remake of a remake — its outcome as predetermined as the end of the third King Kong movie.
Seeing what the policies of the Bible thumping religious righties have done to the economy, I’m not sure this is the right way to go. Then again they’re gonna need all the Festivus miracles they can get if they continue with more of the same Bush era policies tha got us into this clucter-fuck of a mess.
“In God We Trust”
I’ve always thought that this was a subtle, clever way of saying that ‘we’ trust nothing.
Am I wrong?
I suppose it’s tradition, and I really don’t care. But watching these clowns repass a law that has been passed several times in the last decade reminds me of Churchill’s quote, “Democracy is the second worst form of government, next to all the rest.”
Personally I think every representative who voted yes on this bill should return their salary. If we are actually trusting god then what the fuck are we paying them for?
That’s just about all of them.
Since the Supreme Court has determined that the phrase is meaningless, I’m marking it out on all the currency that crosses my paws.
One of my commenters here http://freethoughtblogs.com/cuttlefish/2011/11/02/to-phrase-a-coin/ pointed out that, since the SCOTUS said it was legal because it was meaningless, that such votes as took place this week constitute an argument against that meaninglessness, and should thereby render the phrase unconstitutional.
So, yeah, which is it? Meaningless? Or unamerican?
So how come the US has an army?
I’m gonna write my legislator and ask why he didn’t seek to amend it to “In Jesus We Trust?” I wanna know which particular deity i’m trusting and “God” is just too generic; after all, it may be one of them mooslim gods they want us to trust.