… “In God We Trust” on the back. See This is NOT a Counterfeit Bill at Yahoo News. I’ve always found the idea of putting “In God We Trust” on our currency to be mildly blasphemous. In our money is precisely where we trust God the least. And that’s in our personal finances. When we come to national finances, putting God’s name somewhere in there is false advertising, or in the biblical sense, taking God’s name in vain. Or so it seems to me.
Tag: In God we Trust
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Quote of the Day
From Brian McLaren: “We are suffering the consequences of our idolatry. Our motto ‘In God We Trust’ is printed right on the front of the God in which we trust.”
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In Which God do we Trust?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I’m never one to shrink from producing a thousand words–or ten! I wonder what a video is worth? A certain number of words per frame?
In any case, I wrote earlier about God being mocked in the campaign and I even commented on how “In God We Trust” on our money must be some sort of national joke, considering that we don’t really trust God as a nation, and we do so in our financial affairs least of all.
Now comes an image that’s worth every bit of it:
A Golden Calf? You can find some more pictures and even video of some singing and (almost) dancing (Exodus 32:17-19) around the calf here.
In relation to this, consider the following ad from the Liddy Dole campaign in North Carolina. Hear the part about “In God We Trust” on the money? What on earth is “godless money” anyhow, other than, of course, money that we put ahead of God and thus make into an idol.
Well, that was probably easy to go through than a few thousand words!
HT: One Thing I Know. Also to Dispatches from the Culture Wars for the video.
