vbloke
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Beady
Philosopher
Jeez, those things are going to be worth a fortune to collectors!
JoeTheJuggler
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Tut tut! Don't confuse embezzlement with counterfeiting.
Interestingly, there was one time that "In God We Trust" was DELIBERATELY omitted from American coinage. It was in 1907, on the original design of the $20 gold Double Eagle. President Theodore Roosevelt felt that putting God on money was blasphemous to God -- he wanted the phrase omitted because he was too religious!
Interestingly, there was one time that "In God We Trust" was DELIBERATELY omitted from American coinage. It was in 1907, on the original design of the $20 gold Double Eagle. President Theodore Roosevelt felt that putting God on money was blasphemous to God -- he wanted the phrase omitted because he was too religious!
Achán hiNidráne
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So the mint forgot to put the fundie's magical incantation on our currency.
Did anyone beside me notice that the skies did not darken and the cities did not crumble to ruin? Was there another terrorist attack or did every white, Christian child in America drop dead because of their imaginary friend's displeasure at the lack of adulation for him on our means of exchange?
No?
Yet, in press release from the U.S. Mint we're told:
To whom? To the backward, bigoted, American populace who equates religious belief with patriotism and "decency?" To the politicians who pander to that mass stupidity by standing by this relic of less enlightened times?
"In God We Trust" (and the "one nation under God" phrase in our nonsensical Pledge we're expected to recite at any public gathering) is meant for one thing and one thing only: It is the cultural equivalent of a dog marking it's territory, and woe be it to those of us who don't appreciate getting whizzed on in the process.
Did anyone beside me notice that the skies did not darken and the cities did not crumble to ruin? Was there another terrorist attack or did every white, Christian child in America drop dead because of their imaginary friend's displeasure at the lack of adulation for him on our means of exchange?
No?
Yet, in press release from the U.S. Mint we're told:
To whom? To the backward, bigoted, American populace who equates religious belief with patriotism and "decency?" To the politicians who pander to that mass stupidity by standing by this relic of less enlightened times?
"In God We Trust" (and the "one nation under God" phrase in our nonsensical Pledge we're expected to recite at any public gathering) is meant for one thing and one thing only: It is the cultural equivalent of a dog marking it's territory, and woe be it to those of us who don't appreciate getting whizzed on in the process.
bjornart
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Well, it's not really clipping unless he plans to keep all the shavings and sell them for the metal price. I think it's more like defacing currency, and if he tries to sell them as genuine from the mint atheist coins I suppose it's fraud.