Since there is no god, shouldn't we remove "in god we trust" from our money and courtrooms?
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You #&$#*$@! HEATHEN!!!\n\nHOW DARE YOU BLASPHEME GOD????!!!????????\n\nThere most certainly is a God and He even has "In God We Trust" engraved on Him to ensure everyone knows who their real God is.\n\nHe is usually green, has pictures of dead presidents on His face and many other embellishments to acknowledge His deity. He is worshiped by more people than all other Gods combined, throughout all of history.\n\nHe is portable and convertible for necessaries and for entertainment.\n\nYou better repent or He will curse you and deprive you of His blessings.\n\nAll Hail the Federal Reserve & the Almighty DOLLAR!!!\n\nThe one true God.
859337
No, it should not be removed. When you get married it's supposed to be until death, we have just made divorce to easy. And depending on your religion even divorce doesn't end the marriage in the Church's eyes.
519082
Any church that does not adhere to the King James Version of the Bible, does not believe that salvation is free by grace and not by works, who promotes violence in any action, who has traditional rules and regulations and does not rely on the Holy Spirit is not a church.  A building is never a church.  People are the church because they are made up of spirit and truth and God requires our worship to be of spirit and truth - this doesn't require a building at all.  Scripture also teaches that we should not  forsake the assembling of ourselves together which is why we do gather in buildings and give offerings to help keep the utilities on and to keep a pastor, who should be worthy of his hire, even though my father always held down a secular job so that a church would not feel burdended to pay him a salary to compensate for fulfilling the obligations of his family.  Many people claim to be Bible believing when in fact there isn't much about them that has to with God or Jesus and his teachings.  We were caught in a situation like that, but not for long - it didn't take too many messages from the Book of Bill - that's what we called it as the preacher seemed to preach more of his own word than God's to realize this was not the assembly we wanted to be a part of - Baptist on their logo or not!  It is these false religions that give the Christians such a bad name.
136223
I think it would be a sin to pretend to worship a God without reasoning fist.  If you cannot ask, there´s no freedom of will, no choice.  In almost every religion there has to be choice in order to have real faith.
913993
Yeah, you're right. We should show more respect. Now since the title "God" is the highest, why not just call God as God God? Or God God God? Or better still, God God God God God God .........
1158235
I think it is because our country was founded by men who were deeply religious, posessed good moral values and truly believed that the constitution that they created would be the most fair blueprint for a new country.\nI think that when they declared a separation of church and state,  they really meant that no religion would ever rule the people, such as the christian religion used to, and the Islamic religion wants to. I do not believe that they meant that there could be no religious symbols in courthouses, or schools. After all, we do have the freedom to worship as we please. If i choose not to believe in the ten commandments, then the statues don't mean anything to me. Just as the roadside memorials to accident victims with crosses, wouldn't mean anything to me. They are just reminders.  To remind us that killing, adultery, theivery and the others are immoral. And the in god we trust on the money should remind us everytime we spend a dollar, that it is by the grace of god, christian or whatever you worship, that you have a dollar to spend. I think that all religions, except the dark ones, try to help us all reach a higher moral standard, the teachings are different, but mostly the desired outcome is the same.
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No, it’s not the divine word of Dan Brown anymore. Sorry, you’re doomed to hellfire and damnation, as are we all. Although I should point out that when it’s been done in the past it’s been called revisionism and this in turn would produce a whole new following along with belief structure. So hooray! We’re all saved again (sigh). \n\nYa know, I'd also like to say that I’ve also been reading a lot of your past questions and seeing the responses you’ve gotten from most of them and I realize one thing, people honestly feel that god can’t take a dirty joke. If God created us in his own image wouldn’t that mean he also had a sense of humor? Seriously! I mean if I were an atheist wanting to choose a life with god, these people would seriously give me reason to reconsider it. I for one wouldn't want to spend eternity with them, I'd probably be cast into the pit of hell for farting hard.
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This is a very good point, and i have actually researched it before.  In the Freedom of Religion amendment, there are two clauses: the establishment clause, and the free excercise clause.  The establishment clause is the separation of church and state, or in other words, the government cannot establish or promote any one relgion.  In the free excercise clause, the government cannot ban any one religion.  Oddly enough, atheism is only considered a religion in the free excercise clause, and not in the establishment clause.  This is a sort of loophole that allows the religion to establish atheism in schools, without going against our rights to freedom of religion.  Pretty messed up, huh?
516953
Why not? Is God a property of non-users alone?\n\nBut, I'd suggest you give up drugs and drinks, if you do indulge in these vices.
792090
religion is part of who we are....it is the only thing that can never be "eliminated" as you say. Sorry to know you don't think God is real...
1169477
Good question...In God we trust is on all of our coins, One nation under God is in our pledge of allegiance, it was obviously our founding fathers intentions to have this nation be God oriented.  We do allow for religious freedom here, which I am grateful for, it is what makes America what it is, and since our nation was founded on God, those who can not deal with His name being used should find somewhere they are more comfortable, or learn to be tolerant. We don't stop other religions from practicing their faiths, or those who choose to not practice or not believe, but why should we have to assimilate to those who don't share the values on which this country was founded.
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"In God We Trust" was not placed on the bill until 1957. However, it was originally made the national motto of the United States in 1863 at the suggestion of Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, who himself had supposedly been prompted to do so by a protestant minister concerned with the waning of religious fervor in the American public. This man purportedly wanted to ensure that the US would always be officially grounded in faith in divine Providence, and thus this motto was put on all American coins ever since, although it did not appear on paper currency until much later. But "In God We Trust" is indeed a Masonic motto – one used in almost all Masonic rituals, in which the participants must pledge to always put their "trust in God" during the ceremonies – and this specific phrase can be found in Masonic dictionaries. Its appearance on the dollar bill in the 1950s may have been meant to bolster a currency increasingly dependent on faith due to changes in American monetary policy.\n\nRoosevelt  had laws passed forcing US citizens to give all of the gold and silver that they owned to the government.\nNixon in 1971, closed the "gold window", announcing that the holdings of foreign central banks would no longer be redeemed for gold by the US government. \nThis was the final step in abandoning the gold standard. Now the value of the dollar floats freely in relation to foreign currencies, with no fixed standard of value. \nSo the dollar that we now use is one backed entirely by faith alone – the public's faith in America's economy, and America itself.
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Recently I was in court as a juror and we were sworn in with just the raising of our hands. \n\nThis issue has been filed against our government and the bibles use is being weeded out though out the land. It is a violation of the separation between church and state and should be eliminated all together. \n\nIf you are ever a witness, it is your right to refuse to do this act. I would have if they had tried to make me do it, for the simple fact that I believe in the separation between church and state.
675485
There is no God. Get over it.
1160923
God is everywhere and knows everything, so we don't have the power to "throw Him away".   I believe not enough people read God's Word to do their own research and are falling for the humanistic way of looking at things.  It has been a long, long time since I heard a preacher even preach about Heaven and Hell and the choices we make.  A lot of our churches are so politically correct, no real meat is taught to people who come hungry to hear God's Word.  If the Truth is taught, some people get offended but we will be held accountable for what is taught in our churches.
625168
Yup, only I think we should because the belief in God should not be forced into everyone's wallet.
1155590
No one can say for sure, for proving Gods existence would remove the need for faith. Without faith God does not exist.\nThe concept of Gods was created by every culture independent of each other. Can the whole of humanity be wrong?