Decepticon Spike wrote:What motto did "In God we trust" replace?
Menbailee wrote:Secularism means different things in different places. For example, in Germany you pay your tithe to the church through your taxes! You mark your faith on the form and send the appropriate amount of money along, and if you're areligious, you mark yourself as such and don't send money. There's no state enforcement of religion going on, but there's an entanglement which we would find alarming. Yet we Americans are the ones with large Christian lobbies having a significant say in government policy and significant sway in the hearts of voters.
In no instance anywhere has secularism meant a complete disentanglement of state from religion. Due to the pervasiveness of religiously derived reasoning and symbols in people's lives, I'm not even convinced it can or should be done. The question is which kind of entanglements enable the greatest equality and freedom of worship. "In God We Trust" ties our currency specifically to a monotheistic tradition. I'd gladly get rid of it, but the political effort to do so would anger and mobilize the Christian Right enough to make the endeavor not worthwhile.
Burn wrote:I'm never clicking any of your links ever again.
Burn wrote:High Command is an arsehat.
How can any effort that angers the christian right, not be worthwhile?
Menbailee wrote:How can any effort that angers the christian right, not be worthwhile?
Ha ha ha! I sympathize. But an angry Christian Right is a Christian Right that bites. It's just a matter of choosing battles wisely.
Burn wrote:I'm never clicking any of your links ever again.
Burn wrote:High Command is an arsehat.
AfterImage wrote:It's just like how 'One nation under God' Replaced 'One Nation, Indivisable' during the McCarthy era.
Because McCarthy was a prick.
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