New coin in circulation

[longslide10]

Can't say for sure 'cause I haven't seen one yet but received an email about this new 1 dollar coin being put in circulation but what makes this different is "In God We Trust" is no longer present. So if you are a true American refuse to take them and instead ask for the standard dollar.

 

[CharonPDX]

False. This is an old rumor. (From 2007.)

There was a batch of early "Presidential dollars" that didn't have their edge writing stamped in properly, the part that contains that phrase. They were considered an error, and it was corrected as soon as it was discovered. For 2009 and later, it was moved from the edge to the face. Ironically, the blank-edge coins sell for quite a bit among collectors, as do all "error" currency.

Plus, the Presidential dollar coin program has been discontinued, this year is the last year. Not enough people cared to use them, nearly all were going solely to collectors.

(I am a coin collector, so I know this controversy well. And I make a point of actually USING $2 bills, $1 coins, and 50 cent pieces as often as possible.)

 

[nogods]

People who don't believe in your supernatural being are not "true" Americans?

Or is is sufficient that they believe in at least one supernatural being, no matter which one it is?

What about people who believe in 5 supernatural beings? Are they 5 times "truer" Americans as those who only believe in one?

 

[Bob in Bristol]

People who don't believe in your supernatural being are not "true" Americans?

Or is is sufficient that they believe in at least one supernatural being, no matter which one it is?

What about people who believe in 5 supernatural beings? Are they 5 times "truer" Americans as those who only believe in one?

It is not about belief, no one is telling you have to believe. It is talking about "trust" That phrase has been around since the beginning. Some, now believe "In God We Trust" is in reference to the anointed one, Barack Hussein Obama, not me.

 

[nogods]

It is not about belief, no one is telling you have to believe. It is talking about "trust" That phrase has been around since the beginning. Some, now believe "In God We Trust" is in reference to the anointed one, Barack Hussein Obama, not me.

Since the beginning of what? Your life?

I was born 3 years before "in god we trust" was adopted as a national motto.

 

[wallyb]

I think "in god we trust" was some politician's idea of a joke. Why don't people wake up?

 

[longslide10]

People who don't believe in your supernatural being are not "true" Americans?

Or is is sufficient that they believe in at least one supernatural being, no matter which one it is?

What about people who believe in 5 supernatural beings? Are they 5 times "truer" Americans as those who only believe in one?

Oh STFU fer crissakes! It's better to believe in God and he not exist that not believe and he does exist in which you are totally f'ed my friend--enjoy hell.

 

[longslide10]

False. This is an old rumor. (From 2007.)

There was a batch of early "Presidential dollars" that didn't have their edge writing stamped in properly, the part that contains that phrase. They were considered an error, and it was corrected as soon as it was discovered. For 2009 and later, it was moved from the edge to the face. Ironically, the blank-edge coins sell for quite a bit among collectors, as do all "error" currency.

Plus, the Presidential dollar coin program has been discontinued, this year is the last year. Not enough people cared to use them, nearly all were going solely to collectors.

(I am a coin collector, so I know this controversy well. And I make a point of actually USING $2 bills, $1 coins, and 50 cent pieces as often as possible.)

I see, should've verified that before adding. First time I saw that email. Thanks for the update.

 

[CharonPDX]

Oh STFU fer crissakes! It's better to believe in God and he not exist that not believe and he does exist in which you are totally f'ed my friend--enjoy hell.

How do you feel about global warming? :-D

And at least according to my belief system (ELCA Lutheran) belief in God isn't a "well, just in case" thing, it's a whole-hearted thing or nothing.

 

[dcselby1]

Since the beginning of what? Your life?

I was born 3 years before "in god we trust" was adopted as a national motto.

Eight years for me and my grandfather was born seven years before "In God we Trust" was placed on coins!

 

[CharlieK]

I heard on the news today that the government is taking the dollar coins out of circulation because people don't use them.

 

[CharonPDX]

I heard on the news today that the government is taking the dollar coins out of circulation because people don't use them.

Not taking them out of circulation, just not producing new presidential ones after this year. It is my understanding that they'll still produce a few of the Sacagawea ones to replace any taken out of circulation due to damage, as is standard with coins; but the vast majority of the presidential dollars were just going unused, so producing them in the numbers they had been was pointless.

 

[JD Beam]

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Still on the grounds of separation of church and state "in god we trust" should be taken off currency. Before you flame the hell out of me for that statement I am an ordained minister, BUT I do feel that it is better with religion and government separated.

 

[nogods]

Oh STFU fer crissakes! It's better to believe in God and he not exist that not believe and he does exist in which you are totally f'ed my friend--enjoy hell.

If you are relying on Pascal’s Wager for your salvation then you probably also think the odds are in your favor at a casino.

Which of the 10,000+ gods claimed to exist do you bet on?

And do you really believe that an all knowing all powerful supernatural being wouldn't know that you were just laying a bet?

We are a lot more alike than we are different. We both don't believe in 9,999 gods. I just don't believe in one more than you.

The motto should be changed to "In my God we should trust because your god is a fake god." That would more accurately portray the state of American religious belief.

Voltaire rejected the notion that the wager was 'proof of god' as "indecent and childish", adding, "the interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists....

Since there have been many religions throughout history, and therefore many conceptions of god (or gods), then all of them need to be factored into the wager. This would lead to a high probability of believing in "the wrong god", which, eliminates the mathematical advantage Pascal claimed with his Wager.

Denis Diderot, a contemporary of Voltaire, concisely expressed this opinion when asked about the wager, saying "an Imam could reason the same way". J. L. Mackie notes that "the church within which alone salvation is to be found is not necessarily the Church of Rome, but perhaps that of the Anabaptists or the Mormons or the Muslim Sunnis or the worshipers of Kali or of Odin."

 

[Bob in Bristol]

Since the beginning of what? Your life?

I was born 3 years before "in god we trust" was adopted as a national motto.

"It is not about belief, no one is telling you have to believe. It is talking about "trust", That phrase has been around since the beginning."

Mr. Nogod do you see anything or anywhere in my quote that says when "In God We Trust" was made a motto, or put on paper money (1957), or on coins (1864)? I think not. I did say "That phrase has been around since the beginning." In God We Trust was in the hearts, minds, and words of our founding fathers. I do not feel threatened by those words, do you? Do those words require you to believe anything? I was born 5 years before you, and that means nothing.