Magdelene

good word

What good word?

It was put on all paper money in 1955 by an act of Congress, it was declared a national motto in 1956 and evenually put on all money in 1957. Sometime in 1990 the Freedom from Religion Foundation filed a law suit to remove the slogan a federal judge discerned that the phrase was not a religious one. In 1996 the Freedom form Religion Foundation appealed it to the Supreme Court but they would not hear it.

http://www.coinlink.com/Resources/coina ... s-coinage/
http://acheritagegroup.org/blog/?p=511

Magdalene wrote:
What solace of soul would they have had without religious succor? I do not think it is out of line to say that religious is what sustained slaves who faced hard labor, abuse and murder.

Good point. I wouldn't belittle those who have nothing to hope for and thus, turn to some "higher power". It's those who are free to access to knowledge and evidence, but remain mulish, that are silly. I think you would agree however, these instances do not evoke any respect for religious mularkey, but for mankind's capacity to transcend our our misery and give our lives meaning. A great little book on this topic is Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, holocaust survivor.

I'm an atheist. I don't care. I have a friend who ends his emails with "In His Sign" and I don't care. I have other friends who actually think the government is there to help them and unions care about working people. I don't care. When I consider all the problems facing us, what is written on the money comes way, way down on the list. It's somewhere around getting my knickers in a twist of whether President Obama is a Christian or a Moslem.