I find this so infuriating – no doubt disproportionately so, but all the same.
When Tennessee K-12 public students begin classes next month, the national motto “In God We Trust” will be required to be posted somewhere in their schools.
That’s not a real thing – a “national motto.” Congress can make one up if it wants to, but it’s stupid. Congress can make up a national sandwich, a national rock song, a national hat, a national ice cream flavor – a national any damn thing, but it doesn’t mean anything. And as for making up a “national motto” that is a fact claim about a non-existent magical sky-pest – they can fuck right off with that. It’s grotesque that anyone should be forcing it on children who attend public schools. There is no god, and I don’t trust it an inch. Both.
What’s called the “National Motto Act” passed quietly at the Tennessee General Assembly last April.
The bill says local districts shall require each school to display ‘In God We Trust” in a prominent location such as an entry, cafeteria or common area.
The bill’s sponsor said there is no penalty for not displaying the motto.
Disgusting. Keep your god to yourselves.
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Bizarrely, this is also apparently an anti-government thing:
For not trusting the government, she sure likes its relics.
Hopefully all civics classes will also be required to screen “Dogma”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
and assign at least three of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books
So Jingo, Small God’s, and Thud! ?
Well, no, she doesn’t necessarily. She’s using them as an argument for hanging up a completely unrelated bit of flotsam, not saying she’s a fan of them.
The unofficial national motto “E pluribus unum” was much more meaningful and better in every way. But those paranoid McCarthy-ite asshats back in the 50s had to go around inserting their made-up sky daddy into all sorts of places it doesn’t belong (the motto, the pledge) to express their opposition to GODLESS Communism! OH NO WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
*sigh*
Which reminds me, I really ought to read One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse soon. Not that I can bring myself to read much of anything these days about the current hell we’re in and how we got here. It’s all too depressing.
And the money, don’t forget the money.
““I think it’s a good message that we don’t trust in government. It’s not government we trust, it’s in God we trust.” Lynn told News 2.”
Well, I certainly wouldn’t trust any government she had any part in.
Good point.
Their plan is working.
Ha! It’s perfect, isn’t it – they win either way.
I like mine better – In Godzilla we trust!
http://farcornercafe.blogspot.com/2018/07/and-he-has-much-better-record-on.html
Here’s what it might look like:
http://www.wgnsradio.com/news.php?viewStory=46202
Maybe they can get the 10 Commandments tattooed on the inside of every child’s eyelids. Would THAT satisfy them?
John @13 – a computer disc inside children’s brains, implanted at birth, that repeat the Ten Commandments at regular intervals throughout the day. No option for removal at the age of majority.