In God We Trust (til when?)

And Jack Higgins remains in absentia.....

 

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I like that........

 

ignore, sorry

 

I might rank 2 or 3 other counties up there with it? But America imo is the BEST country to LIVE in, period. End of discussion. Trust me, I’m more than qualified to answer this lol. Now for the unappreciative guy that started this thread? He’s about nothing. He’s just a troll. La fin.

 

I’m gonna use this quote at work tomorrow. If that’s ok? Thanks.

 

Troll

 

Keep the "In God We Trust" and "Liberty".

 

Hey guys, I'm pretty new here. Who's Jim?

 

One of the moderators.

 

In Jim We Fear

 

lol

 

I suppose Bertrand Russell contributed greatly to this sort of debate in both the UK and US during the 20th century? As I read him he had no opposition to sincerely held religious belief, his concern was with insincerely use of religion towards political ends - here is a sample quote (not the best actually, but to hand)

Bertrand Russell > One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

What I think is little known is that his most influential critic was Maynard Keynes

Maynard Keynes > "Bertie in particular sustained simultaneously a pair of opinions ludicrously incompatible. He held that in fact human affairs were carried on after a most irrational fashion, but that the remedy was quite simple and easy, since all we had to do was to carry them on rationally."

Having scoffed at rationality in politics, Keynes went on to say

Maynard Keynes > “civilisation…. (is) ….a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and the will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skillfully put across and guilefully preserved.”

Given the extent of Keynes’ influence over so many aspects, of modern government in general, and of course monetary matters in particular, perhaps I might find someone here who thinks these quotes of interest?

Rob T

PS Thanks to Rasiel for raising this matter, and the moderators for permitting it.

From a UK perspective, Rasiel’s idea that judges are the sort of people to turn to for rulings on such matters seems kind of odd to me…..

 

There's no chance you haven't encountered some one acting in a certain way because of their beliefs. I'll leave it at that

 

On the matter of Jokes – here is one that @TIFF might like

Russell recalls it from a house party he attended, at Keynes' country mansion. I think it very witty, but that is not, I think, entirely the reason Russell mentioned it.

As a party diversion, Keynes arranged all to get dressed up and perform little play, about the mock marriage of two of his pet dogs.

The point was his punch line:

“What man has put together, let no dog put asunder”

Rob T

 

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I see a lot of assimilation comments here and for the life of me I can’t find out where they came from. It’s almost as if the people making those comments think that the only people trying to take this off the money are immigrants. I’m not a first generation immigrant and I would love to see it go. I also saw some percentages thrown out there about how many people want it to stay. I have a hard time believing that as well but I guess if you’re agenda is to make people fear things or other people in order to get your point across (keeping the motto on the coins) then I guess that works for you and the people who surround you.

 

Don't tell me you're walking on one leg again? Here's some fancy footwork for you; now sober up...

 

Looking at the state of the world, and all the pain and suffering, I tend to think if any gods exist, they must be the native American trickster gods. Since they were here first, I think we should assimilate, and adopt those trickster gods as the only true gods - well, Mother Nature, too, of course. I know she exists, because she came to earth once in a margarine commercial ["It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."]

 

Yeah they shoud of killed this thread before knuckleheads like me got involved. God is good. God doesn't need my help.