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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 342975, member: 4626&quot;]God doesn&#039;t reproduce, there&#039;s only one of him, gender is irrelevant.&nbsp; (Referring to God as &quot;he&quot; is just standard linguistic convention, not a description of any actual gender based on religious doctrine.&nbsp; Could just as easily refer to God as she or it.)&nbsp; Besides which &quot;god&quot; doesn&#039;t necessarily specify a male deity, much as &quot;actor&quot; could be male or female... &quot;goddess&quot; is a specifically female term, but &quot;god&quot; is not specifically male.&nbsp; That&#039;s semantics, not religion lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I read a poll once that about 95% of the human population believe in at least one supreme being.&nbsp; And most of the rest are agnostic, not atheist.&nbsp; I see no logic in offending 95% of the population for the sake of avoiding offending the other 5% lol... besides which the motto is declaritive, not imperative.&nbsp; I&#039;d see the point if the motto was &quot;Trust In God,&quot; that may be close to violating the establishment clause of the 1st amendment, as some anti-motto people argue, but &quot;In God We Trust&quot; is purely a statement reflecting the tradition the country was founded on.&nbsp; It&#039;s not saying you must do the same.&nbsp; It&#039;s also not necessarily specifying the Judeo-Christian God... if you like feel free to replace &quot;God&quot; in your mind with Allah, Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster if you so choose, or just disregard it entirely if you don&#039;t beleive the God they&#039;re stating they trust exists at all.&nbsp; Freedom <i>of</i> religion does not mean freedom <i>from</i> religion... in other words the 1st amendment guarantees your right to freely express any religion you choose, or none at all, but it doesn&#039;t protect you from witnessing other people expressing a religion you don&#039;t believe in.&nbsp; Nowhere in the Constitution does it state you have a right to not be offended.</p><p><br /></p><p>And don&#039;t want to get deeper into what may be construed as a politcal and/or religious discussion lol... but the subject came up in a way that related to coins so seemed appropriate in this instance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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