It Doesn’t Belong There, But IT’S STILL THERE!
Cectic alerts us to the latest ignorant bile infecting email inboxes everywhere. The penny is going to be redesigned in 2009, so some ignorant fundies think that means that God is going away (if only…!). Here’s the highly-literate email:
THIS IS WHAT OUR NEW PENNIES WILL LOOK LIKE.
THANKS TO THE ACLU AND OTHER SIMILAR GROUPS THE WORDS “IN GOD WE TRUST” HAVE BEEN REMOVED.
WHEN ARE WE AS AMERICANS, GOING TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND STOP BOWING DOWN TO THOSE THAT TAKE OUR BELIEFS AND RIGHTS AWAY FROM US?
IF WE DON’T ACT SOON THEY WILL HAVE THE WORD “GOD” COMPLETELY ELIMINATED FROM OUR LANGUGE.
THEY’VE ALREADY STOPPED SCHOOL PRAYER, PRAYER AT SPORTING EVENTS AND NOW FROM OUR CURRENCY.
WHAT’S NEXT? WILL THEY OUTLAW PRAYER IN CHURCH?
WILL THEY OUTLAW THE SELL OF BIBLES?
TIME TO SPEAK UP BEFORE THE THE BELIEFS OF A FEW BECOME THE LAW.
Snopes reassures(?) us that this is completely false. The proposed designs are only for the backs of the coins, just like the current state quarters. God is always on the front of our coins.
To quote Snopes:
September 2007 the U.S. Mint announced that in 2009, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln and the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Lincoln Cent, it would update the venerable U.S. penny by introducing four rotating designs depicting different aspects of Lincoln’s life. Some of the designs under consideration by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) include a log cabin (to represent Lincoln’s birth), and, as shown above, Lincoln reading a book (to represent the future president’s early life), and Lincoln on the floor of the Illinois Legislature (to represent his early adulthood).
[…]
All of the designs under consideration are intended to appear on the reverse of the coin, replacing the current engraving of the Lincoln Memorial. The obverse of the coin, which features the famous profile of Lincoln underneath the words “In God We Trust,” is slated to remain intact.
This just proves how gullible many theists are. Not only do they believe hearsay and rumor, but they will rabidly attack others, using their newfound belief as a club. If they can’t even be bothered to verify the facts of something so simple and easily checked, you can be sure they don’t bother themselves with proof of anything else they want to believe.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
It’s bad enough that these morons are obsessed with putting “God” on everything. It’s even worse that they go around seeing anti-Christian conspiracies where none exist. But you’d think they’d at least fan their crazy flames with proper spelling and grammar.
October 14th, 2007 at 1:10 am
…..
They did this with the new dollar coin things too.
See, I have a tremendous itch to scratch with these people. For whatever reason, as of late “IN GOD” has been cropping up where it doesn’t belong or wasn’t before or isn’t anymore. The new Texas pledge? Why did they put “under God” into it? I mean, it’s not like the old pledge was
“I pledge allegiance
to thee, Texas
and Jesus sucked”
or anything. So, instead of focusing on real problems, they change that.
It’s like antibodies or something. The second there’s a perceived threat (which isn’t actually there) that Gawd is leaving somewhere, they instantly retaliate with MORE GOD. It doesn’t counterbalance anything. So the end result can be explained thus:
Lack of God in something= -2 God Points
Same as it always was=0 (neutral/the closest to the ideal)
(Re)inserting God into something=+2 God points
What they think is going on is that 0 goes to -2, so they have to balance it back out to 0 with reinserting God. But instead of going back to 0 they reach an overall God Score of +2 points, which is too much, and the scale breaks and the natural balance is ruined.
Result: Fundie apoplexy, add +2 God Points.
And so on.
(And homophobic senators turning out to be gay, surprisingly, do not subtract anything.)
October 14th, 2007 at 9:33 am
You mean that shit wasn’t removed from the damn pennies? Oh for fuck’s sake. I’ve been going around telling people America’s in for a damn change with the fundie stuff. Secularism my sorry little ass. God, that’s annoying.
L
October 14th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Oh, I just caught this, too.
“THEY WILL OUTLAW THE SELL OF BIBLES”
And hopefully that charming Middle English grammar too.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I think we should go back to the motto that was on the first Continental coinage - “Mind Your Business” There’s a lesson there somewhere…