City vehicles in Chesapeake, Virginia, will soon be getting religion.
At a meeting on July 13, 2021, city councilors unanimously voted in favor of a proposal that would see the official motto of the U.S., “In God We Trust,” emblazoned on every city-owned car and truck, at an estimated cost to taxpayers of US$87,000.
Still, Discobot?
As membership of commercial religions continues to plummet, they’ll apparently resort to cheap propaganda to keep the dollars flowing in.
In Discobot We Trust … to be as unhelpful as prayer in a natural-gas pipeline fire.
It’s not faith if you have to shove it up my ass. But with Christians anymore, faith is nothing compared to political power. The whole point is to make the belief they can not convince people of the law so they will have to believe or suffer as Jesus taught.
…and they totally don’t see the irony in using the word “blitz”.
The “ironic coincidence” was likely intentional.
It seems to me that if the Court declined a challenge to an appeals court decision that having the motto on money didn’t compel people to engage in religion, that seeing the motto on buildings or vehicles won’t either. Compared to some of the reasoning from this year, it will be a walk in the park.
It’s another brick in the wall, you might say. Or another brick removed from the wall, as the case may be.
If only the so-called Christian Nationalists would actually practice so-called Christian values.
They’re not.
Which gets even goofier when you consider the strong vein of BogoNorse neo-paganism that runs through the nationalist crowd…
Like every other form of nominalism, saying it (printing, displaying, etc.) doesn’t make it so, nor does it even evoke the sense of that to which it supposedly points. How often has anyone taken out a dollar bill, stopped to look at it, and then pondered at length the possible meanings of the words written thereon? It’s just another superficial commercial like the ones displayed on city buses, only not as compelling.
They are more into the nationalist part than the christian part.
I mean, the whole point of advertising is that if your environment is saturated with a consistent message, it will infect your subconconscious mind and influence you to normalize the message. So actually, merely glancing at a dollar bill reinforces the message that we are a religious nation.
We need to remove all references to “God” from every government asset.
Let’s suggest that for outreach the motto be translated into arabic. And another version for the satanists… And one of each for all the polytheists.
Early Christian nationalists criticized the Founding Fathers for failing to recognize the United States as an explicitly Christian nation in the Constitution.
Er, it wasn’t an accident or an oversight.
It’s why there’s an establishment clause in the constitution.
If we had a reasonable SC, these movements would be put back under the rug where they belong.
Yes, that’d be one solution; although, for the atheists, including it all is problematic.
This wouldn’t be an issue at all if we hadn’t reached a place where too many people think the preferences of one faction in our society have greater weight and validity than those of their fellow citizens.
Ironically enough, they’re the same folks who rail against purported “ivory tower elitists.”
“Christian nationalists have framed ‘In God We Trust’ as part of the U.S.‘s founding tradition.”
You wanna know what really was “part of the U.S.‘s founding tradition”?
“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.” – Thomas Paine
(Also too: “The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from ancient Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.” – Thomas Paine)
And I’m sure our founding fathers were also familiar with, and in some cases sympathetic to, the notion that men will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Just saying.
It probably would have little to no effect, but emphasizing the Cold War, anti-Russian, genesis of “In God We Trust” as a national motto might rattle a few cognitive dissonance neurons in current “true believers”. Yeah, I know…
How many of us have been saying this for decades, raise your hands.
