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One Nation Indivisible

June 25, 2010 By 6 Comments
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Just Monday morning I was riding along a Florida Highway staring with irritation at a giant billboard looking just like the one below except it had the giant word “GOD” in the middle contributing to three phrases.   Atop and to the left of the word God it said “One Nation Under”, on the left next to “GOD” it said “In” and to the right it said “We Trust” and under “GOD” was written “Bless America”.  Basically the hat trick of American catch phrases which mix up God and state.

It’s nice to see a counter billboard up stressing that our nation’s indivisibility and rejecting the use of patriotism to try to bully people into belief in God.

If you would like to chip in for the sign, The Greenboro Atheists are raising money to pay back the generous benefactor, Joseph Stewart of NCSecular.org, who paid for the billboard out of his own pocket.  Click on the donate link at their website.

Your Thoughts?

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  • Cat

    Wonderful! If we are to require the citing of the Pledge, or even to do so at secular, public events, the words “under God” need to be struck out. Period.

    • Daniel Fincke

      Agreed. But even informally, it’d be no better for churches privately to say it in the “under God” way since it’s still (and even more in that defiant case) an assertion of a theocratic intrusion on what should be a secular government. They should be free to advocate such a thought process but they shouldn’t do it and they shouldn’t be successful in influencing policy according to it.

  • adoubtersramblings

    It’s really great to see these billboards going up. It was even more great to hear the one lady comment in the video that she seemed to give pause and actually concider what it really means.

    cj

    • Daniel Fincke

      Indeed, CJ! What was fascinating was the way that she both seemed critical on the one hand and like awakening to realizing something on the other. It was a rare moment of the ambivalence of an actual thought process occurring in a news feature comment…

  • http://ethicalrealism.wordpress.com James Gray

    It’s nice to see a counter billboard up stressing that our nation’s indivisibility and rejecting the use of patriotism to try to bully people into belief in God.

    Of course, patriotism itself doesn’t mean much more than “don’t question the government unless a Democrat is in charge.” With that definition, I would rather not be patriotic.

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