Blurring the line separating church and state...

[The Brain]

Originally posted by Keyser Soze
if you remove this statue, you have to remove all other references to God, which are numerous, through our government, including our own currency \"IN GOD WE TRUST\"

there is not a seperation of church and state, it is implied but not practiced. theres a big difference between what the system is supposed to do and what it actually does. hypocracy is the rule of government rather than the exception.

Exactly. Freedom of religion without persecution was <i>supposed</i> to mean that, regardless of one's spiritual beliefs, you could worship withour fear of repurcussions. In theory, all religions are meant to be equal, with no one religion being favored over the others.

We all know that is not true.

Even though the "God" in "In God We Trust" is meant to be sort of a generic combination of the God from all the monotheistic religions, it is not Allah of Islam, or YHWH (Yahweh) of Judaism, or Buddha, or even a fucking tree (for all the Naturalists out there, all three of them). And it sure as hell (pun intended) isn't Satan (for all the Satanists).

I suppose the argument would be that it is a God meant to represent the <i>majority</i> of the people's religious beliefs, which as it has stood for 200+ years is Christianity and Protestantism, which both address the Almighty as "God"... which leads to the question that if Judaism ever became the dominant religion in this country, would "In YHWH We Trust" become the slogan on our money (insert anti-Jew joke about them dominanting this country and already controlling our money... <b>here</b>)? But that fact is <i>still</i> unfair because it places Christianity and Protestantism in a favored status over any other religions.