The Freedom From Religion Foundation is damning an exclusionary new South Dakota law that mandates displaying an “In God We Trust” logo in all public schools.
“A new state law that took effect this month requires all public schools in the state’s 149 districts to paint, stencil or otherwise prominently display the national motto,” the Associated Press reports. “The South Dakota lawmakers who proposed the law said the requirement was meant to inspire patriotism in the state’s public schools.”
The law — insultingly confusing patriotism with piety — is part of the nationwide legislative push by Project Blitz, which is a stealth campaign to inject religious bills into state legislatures across the country. The campaign, FFRF avers, is an unvarnished attack on American secularism and civil liberties, imposing the theocratic vision of a powerful few on We The People.
These laws are about advancing the Big Lie that the United States was “founded on God” or Christianity, thus dismantling the wall between religion and government. The motto “In God We Trust” is inaccurate, exclusionary, and aimed at brainwashing American schoolchildren into believing that our nation is a theocracy, FFRF asserts.
FFRF fought the law.
“The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis., which has legally challenged the motto’s inclusion on U.S. currency, alerted its South Dakota members to contact their legislators to express opposition to the law,” AP reports.
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Some have been calling for a lawsuit, but it is a lawsuit that is prompting this. The Supreme Court's rejection to hear an appeal to remove "In God We Trust" motto off money.
Couple of points: Christian's are the ones that are advocating this. But Christians believe this applies to only their god, since they follow the Ten Commandments- as in the First commandment about no other gods before him/her.
However, there are Hindu gods, Greek gods, Satan Gods, just to name a few.
So, if once this motto is posted, and a child or adult is force to trust in one god then there could be a lawsuit. (didn't one of the courts determine that the word "God" is well, non-denominatio
Secondly, The motto is forcing someone to have trust in an entity that does not have a proven existence. The word We is inclusive and encompass everyone. But everyone does not want to be forced into trusting an entity that has not been proven.
That is my $.02 on the matter.
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Today on FFRF's Ask an Atheist, Co-President Dan Barker and Director of Communications Amit Pal will discuss how religion is contributing to the current humanitarian crisis in India. If you have questions, comment here or email askanatheist@ffrf.org.
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Today on FFRF's Ask an Atheist, Co-President Dan Barker and Director of Communications Amit Pal will discuss how religion is contributing to the current humanitarian crisis in India. If you have questions, comment here or email askanatheist@ffrf.org
Feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759 in London, the second of seven children. An industrious young woman, she worked as a governess and then opened her own school. Her first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, was published in 1786, followed by a novel, a children's book, a translation and The Female Reader (1789).
When Edmund Burke read her review of a sermon by dissenting minister Richard Price, he wrote a famous attack on the American and French revolutions. Wollstonecraft rebutted his polemic in her 1790 pamphlet "A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France," attacking the aristocracy and advocating for republicanism.
Her seminal A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was published in 1792. The first influential book calling for the equality of the sexes, it urged that women be educated and treated as "rational creatures." Wollstonecraft championed dress reform, breast-feeding, early education and a national system of co-educational primary schools. She warned of those who prey "on the credulity of women."
She gave birth to a daughter after a brief liaison with Gilbert Imlay, an American businessman, then married atheist William Godwin in March 1797. After an uneventful pregnancy, 38-year-old Mary gave birth on Aug. 30, 1797 to a second daughter, Mary, then died of an infection 10 days later. Wollstonecraft was an ardent rationalist and deist who adopted an agnostic point of view toward the end of her life. Her daughter Mary ran off as a teenager with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and wrote Frankenstein at age 19.
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