De-God Your Money
De-God Your Money
It's your patriotic duty.It is actually illegal for "In God We Trust" to be on any of our U.S. currency. Having it on our money is in direct violation to the First Amendment which prohibits the federal legislature from making laws that establish a state religion or a certain preferred religion. It is also an attack on not only those who don't trust in mythological deities but it's an attack on those who desire to worship a god other than the Hebrew god. Protect your freedom of religion, protect the United States Constitution and protect the basic principals our Founding Fathers built this nation on.Have fun with it!   
Is it legal?YES! It is perfectly legal to "de-God" your money. It is only illegal write on a bill if it is done with the "intent to render [the bill] unfit to be reissued."UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
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 "In God We Trust" was put on all paper currency by an Act of Congress in 1955; the phrase was declared the national motto by an Act of Congress in 1956 and first appeared on paper currency in 1957. The mid-to-late 1950s were a time of overt racism, religious discrimination, and political oppression in the United States. McCarthyism was at its feverous peak. The "red scare" had Congress and President Eisenhower acting in paranoid fits of illegal and unconstitutional activity. The FBI, under the militant J. Edgar Hoover, engaged in illegal spying campaigns against Americans. During this period, the federal government acted more like an authoritarian dictatorship than a constitutional democracy. The government violated civil rights with impunity. Adding "In God We Trust" to the US currency was an act of religious and political propaganda, allegedly to counter the threat of "godless communism." In the early 1990s, the Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit to remove "In God We Trust" from currency and as our national motto, but their case was dismissed by a federal judge on the grounds that "In God We Trust" is not a religious phrase. If "In God We Trust" is not a religious phrase, what is it? Of course the judge did not attempt to justify his absurd claim. The Foundation appealed, but in 1996 the US Supreme Court refused to hear the case, claiming the issue was de minimus. The word "God" is 100% religious and exclusively sectarian with respect to the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The word "We" implies a statement that is inclusive of all citizens, yet millions of Americans do not "Trust In God." The word "God" is in fact nonsense to more than 30 million atheist citizens. - By Mitchell Kahle |
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