There is some bias against atheists in the history of our country. Technically there are laws on the books still extant.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/07/08/there-are-states-where-you-technically-cant-hold-public-office-if-youre-an-atheist/Eight state constitutions include restrictions on people who don’t believe in a supreme being. In Arkansas, denying the existence of God means you can’t hold civil office or testify in court, while in Tennessee there are also guidelines about belief in the hereafter.Having made some study of most of the religions of today, including atheism (I think it qualifies as a belief system since so many of its adherents are so vocal), I think we all have more important issues to worry about then whether or not the coinage says IN GOD WE TRUST or not. As with many religious groups, there is an obnoxious vocal sub-set that seems to make it their calling to blacken the reputation of the vast majority of the faithful. I have a few comments for the obnoxious atheists.
Get over yourselves! If your lack of faith (to paraphrase on the old meme of your faith being so weak as to be threatened by...) is so threatened to observing someone else pray in public, or viewing a cross or menorah in the public square, perhaps you should ask yourself if perhaps the inner angst you feel is your soul's rebellion against your oh so superior mindset that you know better than 95% of humanity.
If you want to feel persecuted, go hang out with the Muslims in the Middle East or Africa. There will be plenty of them willing to demonstrate how truly free and blessed you were to once call yourself a citizen of the United States.
For the race baiters, I know that your enslaved ancestors (yes, slavery was wrong and it still is where it exists, including your imaginary African paradise) would gladly trade places with you in a heartbeat. Getting called a bad name (although it happens more with your fellow blacks than elsewhere) probably doesn't hurt as much as picking cotton or whatever without pay, have your children sold out from under you, being raped, and all the other horrors that DID happen, albeit not as much as Uncle Tom's Cabin would have had us believe. Above all, get over yourselves and acknowledge once and for all that there cannot possibly be ONE person alive who does not have both slaves and slave owners in their ancestry. If you think of one second that every slave EVER was a black person owned by a white person you are full of bigotry yourself, because that says only white people were evil enough to buy human beings. I think the white European girls kidnapped and sold to some degenerate sheikh or Asian brothel would wholeheartedly disagree, and also love to trade places with you. Everyone, able to trace their ancestry far enough back, would find people who were owned, and who owned other people in their lineage. The Bible itself speaks of slavery as does the Koran:
24:31
"And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters' sons, or their women, or their slaves."
The above sura brings me to my last comment in this post, to the aggrieved feminists out there who believe all Western men are chauvinistic pigs who discriminate and micro/macro aggress against women. I'm sure you would rethink your stance if you found yourself locked up in some goat herder's Bedouin tent or a city dweller's harem. But hey, go for it. All of you, atheists, resentful African Americans or feminists. To youall I could add illegal aliens, LGBTs, anti-capitalists, and who the **** ever has a pampered entitled view of the world and a sense of their inflated self-importance in it. Get the hell out of the USA and good luck finding yourselves a better country. Maybe, just maybe, if we could be rid of the most egregious complainers and do-nothings, we might be able to salvage a tomorrow for our children. Unfortunately, or fortunately for your ungrateful carcasses, America continues to shelter you in her protective arms and tolerate your every heedless expectation of her continued support no matter how petulant, shrill, whiny and unappreciative you NEVER CEASE to be.
For once in your heedless lives, can't you JUST SHUT THE **** UP and spend the damn money, motto and all, a whole lot of you are getting from beleaguered taxpaying churchgoers.
