We all tend to laugh at Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart when they declare that the devil is at work in the US. They site the growing acceptance of homosexuals and evolution in the schools as evidence that God is losing out to the Devil.
In the past, I tended to write off their flippant remarks as nothing more than paranoid delusions. Seriously, this is the good ole US of A and this is God’s country. Right? Hell, just look at the money in your pocket because it clearly states, “In God We Trust”, unless of course you live in Europe. But hey that’s your problem.
Well after recent events, I too see the wisdom of our great religious leaders. They are right. God is losing the battle in America and the great Satan is destined for glory. I offer you this as undeniable proof!
The Devil managed to remove our sacred national motto while we as a country were asleep at the wheel. Do you know how tough security is at the US Mint? Well I don’t, but I bet it’s pretty damn good. So you know the Devil means business when he can single handedly bypass security and remove God right out from under our noses.
The end is near!
You can all thank Joel for tipping me off on this one. Oh and sorry about the lack of updates in the last 36 hours, but Tuesday night is poker night, making Wednesday hangover day ;)
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Poor old Satan, wasn’t he just gods advocate? His job was to well, play devil’s advocate, temp people to see if they really were sincere. Now he’s shown to be some deformed version of the pagan god Pan. Poor old pan, all he did was represent male virilty in his goat-like way. Won’t someone think of the now neglected gods? Why do they get rejected when an obviously misanthropic, misogynistic racist god of Christians et al, get to rule the roost? Oh the humanity? Bring back the pantheon I rant….
Oh well, Satan does move in mysterious ways.
P.S. Hope the hangover was bad because you had a great night, but no so bad that you start praying to a non-existent god to remove it!
LOL, no I don’t really get hangovers, just tired. But in my younger days I have been known to worship the porcelain god a few times ;)
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I am absolutely thrilled that “In God We Trust” is on the rim of the dollar coin instead of one of the faces. It’ll be MUCH easier to file off the words.
I used to carry a black Sharpie with me, for crossing out the words on the back of bills.
I did once look up the laws on defacement of money, long ago. At the time, defacing bills was only illegal if you intended to defraud someone. But defacing coins was illegal no matter the intent. I’m guessing it derives from when coins were actually made of valuable material.
I am sorely tempted to try and find one of these.
I just wish this country could get over its damn god fetish. I don’t mean the people. Let them waste their time however they will. I just wish the country as an entity could be more secular. Its a work in progress and either this country WILL get back to its original secular nature or it will die. God will kill America.
Hello Michael,
“God will kill America.”
The irony in this statement is that if America does indeed ‘die’ (losses its superpower status, for example), the religious in this country will take that statement literally. Furthermore, they will blame it on us! I can hear them now,
“God punished this nation because of the people who wanted to remove Him from our government.”
Or they’ll blame our growing cultural acceptance of homosexuality and/or abortion when it is the country’s religiosity that will do us in. It’s classic ‘blame the victim’.
“original secular nature”???? I’ll grant you that the founders weren’t all Christians, but I don’t think that the country had a secular nature.
Scott is right. Despite the founder’s intentions, the country was more religious…
and more racist…
and more sexist…
and more xenophobic…
as was the entire western world.
The difference was that, at the time, America was more secular than Europe. Now the complete opposite is true. Thus I’d amend Michael’s statement to:
“It’s a work in progress. Either this country WILL get back to its original secular nature, relative to the rest of the western world, or it will die.”
Do any of you have any of these new coins? I picked up a couple last night at the bank for kicks and let me tell you, they look like video game tokens. I almost expect to see Chuck E. Cheese where Washington’s face is. Not only that but the etching on the edges doesn’t face the same way or align the same on every coin. It is like these things were manufactured on the same machines that produce the Chinese Yuan. Those are seriously bad craftsmanship.
Okay. So I just checked eBay to see what one of these beauties would cost.
Folks are actually bidding in excess of $150 for one! Are they crazy? (Or maybe not. Maybe their scarcity will keep the price up. Still, is anyone still making money off those Wisconsin quarters with the extra ear of corn?)
There are even bids for unopened rolls of quarters from the region. People are paying twice face value, just on the chance they’ll get a godless one.
I think I’ll stick with sidfaiwu and pull out the Dremel. (Assuming that the golden coating either goes all the way through, or at least decently deep.)
What is it with the US hate of dollar coins? The rest of the world uses them (figure of speech) so can you…
still, what happened to the seperation of chruch and state? I recall a lot of protest that we, in good old Holland, couldn’t put “god be with us” on the side of our euro coins. What is these people’s problem? are they so insecure that they need to be reminded every time they grab their waller?
(ps, there are no words on the side, score one for secular states)
“What is it with the US hate of dollar coins?”
It’s because U.S. dollar bills are so breathtakingly gorgeous. With all those colors and drawings of important non-political folks. Oh. wait, that’s every OTHER country.
I do think part of the problem is that our attempts at dollar coins have been hobbled by the physical dimensions of the coins themselves. They don’t have the heft and look that says “Hey! I’m worth a whole dollar.” That’s why no one uses dimes either.
“Are they so insecure that they need to be reminded every time they grab their waller?”
Well, yes. That’s exactly why. Some also use it as a form of circular reasoning. The US is a Christian state because it says “In god We Trust” on our money and our money says “In god We Trust” because the US is a Christian country.
I too have worshiped the porcelain god! Faith in him is painful to say the least! Let that be a lesson to all who worship, you get ripped off in the end. It’s sad in a way that when a person kills themselves and others in the name of martyrdom, they will cease to exist and thus not realise they just committed a heinous crime against many in the name of a non existant being. It would be nice if they did continue on to ponder their barbaric act for a while…..Oh well, at least they can’t procreate anymore.
offtopic – Its actually illegal to melt pennies. The material in them is now worth so much more than the pennies themselves that its possible to make a profit from extracting the copper and whatnot, so they made it illegal.
Kinda funny.
Dimmu ftw.
First, I’d like to gloat. TFA says: “The edge lettering on the Washington coin required a laborious process that the Mint hasn’t attempted since the 1930s” We in the UK do edge lettering on all our £1 and £2 coins. While the £1 coin is in Latin, the newer £2 coins have Newton’s “standing on the shoulders of giants” quote – science rules in the UK.
Second, what does the Christian God have to do with money!? My knowledge of the Bible is limited, but I seem to remember something along the lines of false idols, the poor being blessed, and something about a camel and a needle…
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