Mark your bills my fellow Americans!
"All Americans, and foreigners as well if your bills has "God" on it, that are atheist and would like to participate in this campaign simply stand together and read! Americans; our currency has "In God We Trust" on it and I have simply started marking out "God" with a pen and writing "Atheism" either above or below to protest putting God on our currency. So it reads: "In Atheism We Trust"."
I read this post on another atheist forum and thought it was a good idea. So I decided to pass it along.
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Permalink Reply by Hollyn on
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It is a fun thing to do. I've been doing this for a few years now and refer to it as degodified currency. A while back (xmas 2009 apparently) I was inspired to create a livejournal community where people could post their degodifying slogans. I made a personal account, intending to make a community, but I slacked off. I called it Atheist Bill.
It's dawning on me now that I could, in all actuality, create a facebook page with this theory. But again, I'm pretty lazy and don't go on the computer much more than once or twice a week.
My intention was to have a collection of people willing to do this action. Personally, I don't agree with replacing "God" with "atheism". I feel that doing that simply gives an offended xian the ammunition to say something negative about an unruly atheist with an axe to grind. It doesn't really make anyone think.
Personally, I use any of the following, "In Science We Trust," "In Reason We Trust," "In Secular America We Trust," Sometimes I simply cross out the whole thing and write in "E Pluribus Unum" ... If I'm feeling feisty it's, "In The Flying Spaghetti Monster We Trust"
On occasion I have, in the borders of the bill, written bits of trivia about our founding fathers. Mostly referencing that the majority of them were not Xians, and for all intents and purposes would have been considered agnostics or atheists of their day, even though many of them were deists. The Treaty of Tripoli was often cited.
The goal was to have as many people marking their bills as possible. The goal behind that action is, the more marked and defaced a bill becomes, the less usable it is as legal tender. If a person or a business turns in heavily marked bills to a bank, the bank sends these defaced bills back to the US Treasurer.
Ideally, if enough people are taking the time to mark out this exclusionary slogan, maybe someone might finally notice and wise up.
Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble. Keep up the degodification! (BTW, I once came across a site that sold nice rubber stamps specifically designed for degodifying purposes.)
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Permalink Reply by TK on -
I like "E Pluribus Unum" better. I don't mind people practicing religion, so long as they keep it out of government.
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Permalink Reply by paul babcock on -
I probably would prefer something other than "atheists". (It comes out like saying "In not collecting stamps we trust") However, I do like this idea. Thanx for hipping me to it.
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