In God I Trust … but I'm not going to presume for you

Not sure how plastering "In God We Trust" around City Hall is somehow speaking "on behalf of our men and women who defend our freedoms, those who are military veterans, reservists and active-duty personnel who live in our community."

Especially when it's done on the basis of "ceremonial deism," which means it's basically just mouthing vaguely religious platitudes by nationalistic rote. If that's what it's meant to represent, then it's an insult to the godly as well as dissenters. #ddtb

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A. Marina Fournier says:
Sat 26-Nov-11 4:23am at 4:23am
The government, however, should not have one – nor should it endorse your view of theology over your neighbor’s.. When the government posts “In God We Trust” in public buildings and stamps it on money, it is expressing an opinion: That God exists. That there is only one God. That this God is worthy of our trust.
The message isn’t subtle: If you agree with these statements, you are the better American, you’re the “real” American. Those who don’t are second-class citizens.
No matter how you slice it, that’s not neutrality toward religion.
If you’re an atheist, agnostic, or not a member of the major religions of the world, or unreconstructed Native American, you’re a third class citizen, behind the major, but non-Christian, religions.
And I agree wholeheartedly with your last paragraph.
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