Satanists, do your thing! I fucking hate these attempts to make the US a christofascist country. I wonder if there will be arguments about whether Trump, DeSantis and their ilk were Christians in 80 years.
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As a Satanist, I would love to challenge this, but this one is unfortunately much more difficult to challenge than, say, the 10 Commandments because Christians managed to fuck up our national motto. And all this law is doing is requiring teachers to put our national motto up in classrooms.
It's crazy because the first amendment literally says that there should be no national religion, yet it's acceptable that "in god we trust" because it's not a specific religion. That's just such a bad faith interpretation of the law. Plus it's always the "constitutionalists" who are pushing this kind of shit, which I guess is the kind of hypocrisy we've all come to expect from them.
It shows a bias to monotheistic religions. I don't understand how that's justifiably neutral enough.
Sadly, the Supreme Court came up wit the bullshit idea of ceremonial deism and here we are.
In Satan we trust!
Social studies teacher here. Aside from the obvious church/state problems with this, there might be an easy way around it for teachers: put up a poster with a dollar bill on it. Less conspicuous, still follows the letter of the shitty law.
Could they not also put up multiple banners stating "in [yet another diety] we trust" and continue with "in [notable scholar] we trust" etc... Dilute the message intended by the law?
I like it. Surround it with "In bigfoot we trust", "in the tooth fairy we trust"
'In God we trust', followed by 'In God we trust' in Arabic. 😆
Oh please hang it up and make it say "in Allah we trust". Anti discrimination and shit.
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Just hang it up in Arabic.
I hated social studies in school but the teachers were always the coolest ones. Nice to see the tradition is being carried on.
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I'm all for people's religious freedoms but this kind of BS is a huge problem. They act like we are requiring the LGBTQ flag in every classroom and respond by doing the exact thing they accuse others of doing.
This is one of the hallmarks of fascist movements. Accuse your opponent of what you yourself are doing as a justification for your own bad actions. It's straight out of the Joseph Goebbels playbook. The republicans have been using it successfully for at least 30 years now, but we're going to see it used more and more blatantly as the GOP becomes more and more openly fascist.
This is the opposite of religious freedom since it imposes one religion unto everyone else.
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It’s all projection.
Every thing they say, somewhere one of them is doing it.
While the “In God We Trust” motto does not reference any one religion, critics of the law fear it will further blur the lines separating church and state, which follows a pattern seen in Southern legislatures in recent years.
Satan is not God though is he/it? So they are discriminating. It has to be challenged by those legends at the church of satan.
The Satanic Temple is who you're probably thinking of because the Church of Satan doesn't do much of anything except post snarky things on X and whine about how TST isn't real Satanism and how TST shouldn't be engaging in political action.
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Would she be just as ambivalent if it was “In Allah we trust”?
Separation of church and state and all of that...
The SCOTUS has ruled that the phrase "In God We Trust" is not a religious statement, because the SCOTUS is a joke. That wasn't even this SCOTUS.
As long as it's only in Arabic, I'm cool with it.
Watching all those fucking hypocrites melt the fuck down would almost be worth the chaos. :D
“It doesn’t preach any particular religion at all, but it certainly does recognize a higher power.”
aka fuck atheists
Freedom of religion includes freedom from religion dumbass.
Yup. Also the largest growing philosophy, for lack of a better word, in the US. Also the one that’s most dangerous because we’re okay with ignoring their brimstone and hellfire.
It doesn’t say where it has to be displayed. Laminate that shit and put it on the floor so it can be stepped on every day.
It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.'
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Your mission if you choose to accept it. Switch the ‘G’ and the ‘d’ so it says ‘ In doG We Trust. Thereby altering the meaning completely. Sit back smoke a joint and watch the chaos ensue
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Hurray for regression!
In which of my gods am I supposed to trust?
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