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[–] 87 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (21 children)

Doesn't that go against separation of church and state, and if this is government pushed, isn't this a first amendment violation?

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Fucking hate this. There is a local public meeting that starts with a prayer to the Evangelical God in Jesus’s name that I’m forced to attend because of my job. I hate being essentially compelled to participate in prayer. The SCOTUS precedent supporting this is 100000000% Christian bias.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    And you can't disrupt the meeting by interrupting the prayer until they kick you out, because then presumably your employer would fire you, I assume? 'Cause if not, you should definitely ruin their motherfucking christofascist bullshit.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Look at the dollar bill. America has never given two shits about the separation of church and state.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    In god we trust was added in the cold war because the old saying may have promoted something other than capitalism

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, it was added during the cold war because the commies were seen as godless heathens and the religious assholes in charge seized the opportunity to push their brainwashing on us using "do the opposite of the commies" as an excuse. There was never any legitimate concern about "e pluribus unum."

    It's the same story as why they reflexively oppose almost anything proposed by a Democrat today.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The way it was worded basically said that it had to be the national motto, thereby not making it a religious text to bypass the concerns you mentioned.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What I don't understand is how the national motto can be a religious one without breaking the first amendment.

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