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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1535482, member: 31533"]Unfortunately, you (used as a word in general that describes a person, any person other than myself and not used as a word to describe "you", i.e., the person I'm responding to, personally) run into people who are so entrenched in their own rightness, that they cannot comprehend that their viewpoint is or could be just an opinion based on the way they were brought up. Allowing people to hold opposing viewpoints and treating those viewpoints as valid makes is difficult, because their 'rightness' cannot be right if other diametrically opposing views are also "right". Therein lies the crux of the problem, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>You will find many topics and people who cannot agree to disagree. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as In God We Trust on our money, it reflects the US. Historically (collectively), we place "God" as the person/entity we believe in. That may change as demographics change in a country. The country has changed a lot since it was 'created' over 200 years ago, when there were only about 4 milllion American people in the US and those people had originated primarily from northern European countries and the British Isles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1535482, member: 31533"]Unfortunately, you (used as a word in general that describes a person, any person other than myself and not used as a word to describe "you", i.e., the person I'm responding to, personally) run into people who are so entrenched in their own rightness, that they cannot comprehend that their viewpoint is or could be just an opinion based on the way they were brought up. Allowing people to hold opposing viewpoints and treating those viewpoints as valid makes is difficult, because their 'rightness' cannot be right if other diametrically opposing views are also "right". Therein lies the crux of the problem, I think. You will find many topics and people who cannot agree to disagree. As far as In God We Trust on our money, it reflects the US. Historically (collectively), we place "God" as the person/entity we believe in. That may change as demographics change in a country. The country has changed a lot since it was 'created' over 200 years ago, when there were only about 4 milllion American people in the US and those people had originated primarily from northern European countries and the British Isles.[/QUOTE]
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