The nation was founded by Christians, but was open to freedom of religion, but not freedom FROM religion. There's a difference between freedom of religion, where you can make your own choice, and freedom from religion, where there's a lack of religion at all.
Considering at least 70% and traditionally around 85% of Americans consider themselves Christian I would say what our Government believes doesn't matter. It wouldn't matter if the entire Congress was Atheist. You still can't change the fact that 3/4 of Americans are Christians. America is,was,and will always be a Christian nation. I could care less what the founder fathers said or didn't say. Try living in reality.
@Mlwtca "will always be" suggests you know something we definitely don't and have some excellent method for divining the future, please share it with us.
@JayJayAbels The pledge is fine, as it was originally written, and it's been changed twice. The first was a subtraction of a word or phrase. The second was the addition of "Under God". It's worse to have it in than to have a pledge.
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." From theTreaty of Tripoli, article 11 John Adams and ratified by congress
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies." Ben Franklin Letter to von Humboldt, " I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." T Jefferson
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. - Thomas Paine - Age Of Reason
One thing I've always been puzzled about. Why does the United States have a pledge of Aleigence. I don't know of any other western country that has this, especially in schools.
In 1966, the phrase "In God we Trust" was added to the Dollar Bill, should (In A Dead Middle Eastern Man We Trust As Our New God With Blind Faith) be removed from the American Dollar Bill? I would like to see Abraham Lincoln's QOUTE added on the back of The American Penny, (“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma”), US President.
ironicaly money is created by the fed -which is a privately owned bank -who could give a damn about anything but enslaving the nation and all people evrywhere with debt
Regardless what faith or lack of faith the founding fathers believed in and or practiced in their personal lives, they left religion completely out of the US Constitution. They made every effort to exclude it. Stating the government cannot establish a religion nor give a religious test for any elected office.
In the Christian religion, you have no freedom speech, no freedom of religion, no right to protest, no right to a trial, very cruel and very unusual punishments are cornerstones, not all are equal (slaves and other religions), there is no right to vote on what is right or just, no right to privacy and no right to an actual education. After all is said and done, does this sound anything like what we as Americans value today? Is this what our founders had in mind or what our soldiers died for? NO!
I'm for secularisation, what I don't like is the dependence to the founding fathers. It's always "they gave us". But that would mean that we could NOT have what they didn't give us and should be working in the way they wanted. Even if there seems to be no problem with their ideas, what I dislike is that fundamental aproval of the founding fathers. What has being stablished should be able to be subject of change, if needed, of course.
According to the most recent statistic shows that about 70% of the U.S. population is "Christian". Lets just say (hypothetically) that this is a Christian nation. But then, if we're going to go so far as to call our whole nation one religion, then we should be more exact now shouldn't we? At what point do we stop dividing our nation based on majorities? Shall we call ourselves a Lutheran nation? A Presbytarian nation? It's insanity. By the way, 2:08 that guy should read a little bit o' MATT 5:6
نصف رسالتي من أنا؟ أنا الأخ ، إلى الأخوات والأخوة جميلة قوي. من أنا؟ أنا الابن ، إلى الأم والأب المحب الحكيم. من أنا؟ أنا الأب ، وجميلة ، الطفل ، المحبة الخاصة. الإسلام قادتكم ضعيفة ومثير للشفقة ، هل يرون كنت التراجع. طيبة أهل الإسلام ، احلال النظام في منزلك. جيسي كوين هاريسون
I want someone who believes in the mantra that "we are a Christian Nation" to tell me what this means. In other words--let's suppose we are, and the argument is over. What's supposed to happen at that point? What do you see as flowing from that notion? Are Christian churches supposed to be favored? Given tax money? Only Christians can hold office or vote? Legislation must pass Biblical scrutiny? What is supposed to happen as a result of us being a "Christian Nation"?
We should all do a little soul searching about our famous motto. In the Bible, it states that “In the beginning, God created Heaven and Earth”. That would mean that God created the North American continent, and all of its living creatres of life. Surely, God did not approve of the oppression of his Native Americans.
We cannot be held responsible for the mis-deeds of our Founding Fathers, but we could set the record straight with our motto, by changinging it to read:
@BeauPeap And I'm sure he would not have approved of Indian mistreatment of Native Europeans either. Fault on both sides. Forgiveness on both sides is needed as well.
@FaganRoberts If someone runs you out of your home, burns your house down, kills your livestock, and takes title to your property by force, and you defend yourself, and try to stop him, is that mistreating "someone"?
@FaganRoberts You seem not to comprehend what I have earlier stated; I don't hate the white man, if so I would hate myself. It just seems wrong, to me, that most people (excluding Native Americans) seem to believe that God has handed us this country on a silver platter, and that God stands behind everything that our Founding Fathers have done. Native Americans will never recover any of the real estate "held title to" by their ancestors. Changing one word of our motto would be truthful.
@BeauPeap I essentially agree with what you're saying. But the Indians never "held title" to any of the lands. The Indians were squatters. No one owned any land except perhaps the Iroquios Nations of the midwest. The Europeans were colonists while eventually establishing titled legal territories under preexisting laws. Myself, I don't believe in a god, particularly one that recognizes land establishments, whether ancient or contemporary, given/ taken by warfare, colonization or simple economics.
@FaganRoberts You will note that I had quotation marks each side of "held title to". Should you ever visit my channel, you would find two videos dealing with "our" treatment of Native Americans. What got me started in this,
was a newspaper article in a local area, the author complaining about government's ability to take part or all of one's "private property," such as for road construction, etc. He threw in the words "our sacred rights" of private property ownership. This struck a nerve.
Let's not revise history. We were a Christian nation but through fabian socialism we have become a European Socialist nanny state. All equally poor. All equally unemployed. Atheism is fine as an idea, but don't force socialism on me as an atheist government. Leave me alone. I hate queers. I am an atheist.
Religion? various groups of humans who often gather to talk in ancient, backward, primitive ways about events that never happened. Then admonish all non-believers as evil and destined for an afterlife of misery and pain, at the behest of a loving and all knowing super-being that lives in the sky, and as soon as they are done lecturing their meek flock with their idea of what is right or wrong, they encourage each other to chant songs to the magic sky friend? and I'M the weird atheist?
this is how that slogan came to be on the american dollar. "put in greed we trust on the bills." printer person hard of hearing says "what?" "I said put in greed we trust on the bills!" printer person misunderstands the words and thinks he says put in GOD we trust on the bills and smiles. "Oh ok thats a good idea!" the money is printed with in GOD we trust and the people rejoice while the people in the government are furious but, are afraid to change it for fears of being lynched.
This is the video of a blind fool.Who's pyramid seal is on the $1?THE FREEMASON'S.Who's God is of the Freemason?THE BAPHOMET!Why are the floors in ALL capital buildings checkered?FOR THE MASONS!In God We Trust has NOTHING to do with Jesus or the bible cuz he aint the God of the Masons but our nation is totally run by the Masons.Its a sick joke on you.And you fell for it.
@Rock3t138 Yea, and what are you doing about it, you useless fuck?
Oh wow, you 'figured out' a joke which may or may not actually exist. And here you are, saving the world from the lizard people by going around on Youtube yakking on about how much more enlightened you are because you know 'the truth'.
Get a life. People like you don't care about 'the truth' or sharing it, you only care about pretending to yourself that you're actually worth something. My bathroom has checkered tiles, btw.
@Rock3t138 IOh please. If the Freemasons control the USA, why are their poor freemasons? I'm not a mason, but I'm also not a conspiracy nut. You don't need to be a mason in order to be President of the USA, but you do need to be male and a Christian.
As a matter of historical fact, America entered into the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797 which included in part the following statement: "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion "
"Mind your business." I want it back, I want it back right now because that is awesome. Its right up there with "dont tread on me" and "live free or die."
Hard to really say that Mind Your Business was the motto of the entire country. Under the Articles of Confederation all of the States had the right to their own coinage. Mind Your Business was probably the motto of one of the States. However, as far as I am aware, E Pluribus Unum was the original motto of the United States of America at the time the original thirteen States ratified the Constitution. Hooray for hair splitting! :)
America used to be a place where you could do what you wanted (considering it didnt impact other people), now its a place where half the people just want to make everyone elses life as fucking miserable as possible.
@ChuckyJesus666 Not really. "We Are One" was on the back of the original "Mind Your Business" coins. This was the phrase replaced by the Latin version "E Pluribus Unum" (Of Many, One). E Pluribus Unum remains on a lot of the "In God We Trust" money, so it was not an intermediate of the two mottos. Different animal altogether.
Why do you athiests have your panties in a wad? How have you personally been harmed by religion? Don't give me some sob story about how mom and dad forced you to go to church. I mean real, demonstrable harm. Fact is 99.9% can't. Stop wasting your time on opposing religion and focus on improving yourselves - give shelter to the homeless, food to the poor, and all of those other things religious people do. Then maybe people would stop viewing athiests as a bunch of selfish assholes.
@moosepok A person cannot be harmed by 'religion', as it isn't a physical entity that can do harm. What religion does is congregates people into a set of beliefs (often vague and varied) that allows people to validate these beliefs through consensus, even if the belief is harmful and unjust. In turn this DOES have the ability to harm the minds of people, and those who disagree. This is a concern as these people are humans, brothers and sisters... what happens to them, should concern us.
"Mind your business" <--- That's awesome! I didn't know that, they should totally put that back!!! We must campaign for it or something! If they did, this would make the country much better...
@insightnew Could be. I was going to point out on that video how secular those presidents he named were but of course like almost all Christian videos on YouTube THE COMMENTS ARE DISABLED. There's a long list of presidents who confirmed the division of state and church. All the "important ones" too.
The Bush's always get nailed with their phony pious religious pronouncements, and rightly so. But one should also look at the pious hypocrite President Jimmy Carter and what he had to say regarding religion. But unfortunately most atheists consider Jimmy a no touch because he was a liberal Democrat. As if the Bush's were really all that conservative to begin with. Bring back Thomas Jefferson. Even if it pisses off the anti-Libertarians!
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
It was an oxymoron to say that you were going to be using the logic of christian nation against itself. The same as military intelligence or intelligent theist.
You have to be a Christian in order to get into heaven! Yahweh is a loving God and loves each and everyone of us. The earth is less than 10 000 years old and the devil planted dinosaur fossils in order to test our faith. Ahhh who am I kidding? Yahweh is a genocidal freak and all religious people have been brainwashed. In God we trust yeah right.
@EntinludeX United we stand or divided we fall, indeed. The irony is that the pledge talks about how we stand united (indivisible), directly after excluding atheists, agnostics, deists and polytheists.
@eequalsfb Well the words "under God" were not part of the original pledge of allegiance. The phrase was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance June 14, 1954. I choose simply to say the original Pledge which does not discriminate based on religion. :)
@T0mmy9898 Christians routinely ignore their holy scripture where it doesn't suit them. I am doubtful that the national coinage motto would persuade them to behave differently.
.. and the other side of that coin says "we are one" with interlocking rings to represent different cultures and beliefs coming together to mind their own shit.
but religious bigots will still claim this country belongs to them because American History, The Preamble, The Declaration, The Constitution and even Truth itself don't mean shit them. They pledge allegiance to Mother Goose er_ I mean The Bible er_ I mean the guy who stars in Mother_ um The Bible.
If even 10% of Atheists put a big red "circle slash" over the word "God" on all the bills that they transacted, very soon a substantial percent of bills would be altered in this way.
This might help people stop and think: "wow, there really are people who don't believe in God" (increasing awareness re: atheists) and "maybe we shouldn't have God's name right there on the money where Atheists can deface it".
What's wrong with being unamerican anyway? What kind of behavior should be considered "american"? Prayer? I never understood what I was pledging to when I recited the pledge of allegiance as a child. When it started to feel like a prayer, I stopped doing it and just stood up with the rest of the class. Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli should be enough to convince any fundamentalist that this is a secular nation, or at least not a christian one.
@PluralOfEverything good point, this whole nationalistic "american" patriot garbage bothers me. What is america? it's a dumpster of all different people who could not make it in their other countries.. just like Canada.. I have no canadian pride because canada means nothing to me. Well, that's being a bit hateful to my own country, lol, but I have never known what actually being canadian means. And what is american? no one can describe it. Just a multicultural dumpster I guess.
@HugNow I think that multicultural is exactly what a nation should be. Every group tries so hard to hold on to its own traditions and values by shutting out all other influences. If we had learned from the natives rather than destroy them, we could have taught them as well, and both peoples would have been better off in the long run. As long as people fear change, the human race will not unify the way it needs to in order to undo the damage it has done to the planet and survive into eternity.
@PluralOfEverything multi culturism is fine if it is the mix of correct cultures. Unfortunately when bad cultures infect a country and they try to push their own agendas on your country, that's where it gets bad. Look at sweden as an example. Canada is pretty good, where I live, but I know many places in canada where I probably wouldn't want to live, such as the extremely multi cultural materialistic TORONTO.
@HugNow American culture is too materialistic also. I hate the attitude that life is a big stuff collecting contest. We make fun of people like the Amish, but I think there's a lot we could learn from their way of life.
@PluralOfEverything that's easier said than done, I'm not necessarily afraid of change, but here in my country we have a number of immigrants who have a different view on things than the natives. Some of these things are totally against what I, and fellow citizens, think is right. I don't mind if they do that, as long as they do it in their own country, where it's accepted.
@OhReallyNoWai That is why people on both sides of an issue have to understand each other's position. The people who think something is right that you think is wrong have to understand why you think that, and vice versa. Then a compromise has to be reached, or one side has to completely change their point of view, which would mean the loss of a part of their culture. We all have to decide whether or not our culture is more important than doing the right thing.
The original idea of the united states was that you were free, freedom of press, freedom of expression, freedom of relgion. So no it is not acceptable to say for example gay marriage is wrong just because a certain brainwashed group doesn't like it and it offends their cultural ideal. America is a melting pot of culture it is therefor not a defined culture so arguing against changes to this culture is redundant as the entirety of US culture is the addition of new cultures.
@JamesThWilliams The united states wasn't some wonderland of freedom in the early days. New cultures have never found it easy to "melt in". There has always been intolerance. The united states exists for a few people to have power over everybody else. That's why all nations exist.
@PluralOfEverything Multiculturalism is fine until one culture, by sheer numerical majority or influence, overtakes the others thereby asserting their traditions, values, etc. Multiculturalism through diversity destroys unity within a nation leaving voids in it's wake, always striving to be filled. Then as always, religion and superstition steps in attempting to unify whilst leaving the gullible people delusional and stupified. Multiculturalism and religion is poison.
@FaganRoberts Religion and superstition are the basis for a lot of traditions, and groups are very resistant to changing traditions they think the creator of the universe endorses. It's sad that people feel a need for it. Maybe the solution isn't a total mixing of cultures. Maybe the answer is respect for different cultures, which will continue to exist for as long as people remember their heritage.
@PluralOfEverything Yes, I agree with what you wrote. Mutual respect for individuals and a comensurate respect for different cultures providing none get dynamic about it. But as in all cases, I should not be compelled to respect it. I can never respect something or someone out of feigned necessity, or by matter of coercion, merely because someone or some pressure group tells me I ought to, sans reasons. Good points.
@eequalsfb American is the official religion of the united states. It became painfully clear right after 9/11. You should hear my grandpa talk about muslims. It's horrible.
The nation was founded by Christians, but was open to freedom of religion, but not freedom FROM religion. There's a difference between freedom of religion, where you can make your own choice, and freedom from religion, where there's a lack of religion at all.
343GuiltySparkO4 1 month ago
If we are a Christian Nation, why do we love to start wars? I do not remember reading about Jesus starting any wars....
Htown75 1 month ago
Considering at least 70% and traditionally around 85% of Americans consider themselves Christian I would say what our Government believes doesn't matter. It wouldn't matter if the entire Congress was Atheist. You still can't change the fact that 3/4 of Americans are Christians. America is,was,and will always be a Christian nation. I could care less what the founder fathers said or didn't say. Try living in reality.
Mlwtca 2 months ago
@Mlwtca "will always be" suggests you know something we definitely don't and have some excellent method for divining the future, please share it with us.
satanisthetruegod666 1 month ago
@Mlwtca "I would say what our Government believes doesn't matter."
Then it's obvious you don't understand the constitution or its purpose.
moopism 1 month ago
awesome vid
Needshoe 3 months ago
I wish we'd go back to the old motto (sigh) .
Jaybird196 6 months ago
I'm not sure which is worse... having "Under god" in our pledge of allegiance or... having a pledge of allegiance in the first place.
Indoctrination is unwise, unhealthy and, IMO, unAmerican.
JayJayAbels 7 months ago
@JayJayAbels The pledge is fine, as it was originally written, and it's been changed twice. The first was a subtraction of a word or phrase. The second was the addition of "Under God". It's worse to have it in than to have a pledge.
HimesInu 4 months ago
"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." From theTreaty of Tripoli, article 11 John Adams and ratified by congress
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies." Ben Franklin Letter to von Humboldt, " I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." T Jefferson
max2right 7 months ago
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. - Thomas Paine - Age Of Reason
max2right 7 months ago
One thing I've always been puzzled about. Why does the United States have a pledge of Aleigence. I don't know of any other western country that has this, especially in schools.
VinnyMonster1 7 months ago
i find most atheist (including myself) and christian annoying at the same level
Th0usandMaster 8 months ago
Great video, and well said. By the way, I dig the user name - the theory of musical relativity has been ignored far too long.
bobsmeerfak 8 months ago
I do some american history ,first time i ever hared that one "Mind your Business" !!!
parsonman05 8 months ago
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In 1966, the phrase "In God we Trust" was added to the Dollar Bill, should (In A Dead Middle Eastern Man We Trust As Our New God With Blind Faith) be removed from the American Dollar Bill? I would like to see Abraham Lincoln's QOUTE added on the back of The American Penny, (“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma”), US President.
MagicTellaVision 8 months ago
ironicaly money is created by the fed -which is a privately owned bank -who could give a damn about anything but enslaving the nation and all people evrywhere with debt
MrIzzyDizzy 9 months ago
Regardless what faith or lack of faith the founding fathers believed in and or practiced in their personal lives, they left religion completely out of the US Constitution. They made every effort to exclude it. Stating the government cannot establish a religion nor give a religious test for any elected office.
thesageofohio 9 months ago
In the Christian religion, you have no freedom speech, no freedom of religion, no right to protest, no right to a trial, very cruel and very unusual punishments are cornerstones, not all are equal (slaves and other religions), there is no right to vote on what is right or just, no right to privacy and no right to an actual education. After all is said and done, does this sound anything like what we as Americans value today? Is this what our founders had in mind or what our soldiers died for? NO!
iconoclast135 9 months ago 2
Wow, America did start with some good ideas. I think they really need to put "Mind your buisness" back on the coins.
Silentsam7532 11 months ago
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Silentsam7532 11 months ago
I'm for secularisation, what I don't like is the dependence to the founding fathers. It's always "they gave us". But that would mean that we could NOT have what they didn't give us and should be working in the way they wanted. Even if there seems to be no problem with their ideas, what I dislike is that fundamental aproval of the founding fathers. What has being stablished should be able to be subject of change, if needed, of course.
rolingpingu 1 year ago
In God We Trust - Everyone else pays cash.
mandolinic 1 year ago
According to the most recent statistic shows that about 70% of the U.S. population is "Christian". Lets just say (hypothetically) that this is a Christian nation. But then, if we're going to go so far as to call our whole nation one religion, then we should be more exact now shouldn't we? At what point do we stop dividing our nation based on majorities? Shall we call ourselves a Lutheran nation? A Presbytarian nation? It's insanity. By the way, 2:08 that guy should read a little bit o' MATT 5:6
Mystrymeat 1 year ago
[ahem]
The words "In God We Trust" were added to our currency in 1956.
... tada?
ScarletCrow 1 year ago
"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington
drjackflash 1 year ago
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RockwellPorter 1 year ago
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I want someone who believes in the mantra that "we are a Christian Nation" to tell me what this means. In other words--let's suppose we are, and the argument is over. What's supposed to happen at that point? What do you see as flowing from that notion? Are Christian churches supposed to be favored? Given tax money? Only Christians can hold office or vote? Legislation must pass Biblical scrutiny? What is supposed to happen as a result of us being a "Christian Nation"?
DandAinTac 1 year ago
Bravo!
julzabro 1 year ago
We should all do a little soul searching about our famous motto. In the Bible, it states that “In the beginning, God created Heaven and Earth”. That would mean that God created the North American continent, and all of its living creatres of life. Surely, God did not approve of the oppression of his Native Americans.
We cannot be held responsible for the mis-deeds of our Founding Fathers, but we could set the record straight with our motto, by changinging it to read:
“IN Truth We Trust"
BeauPeap 1 year ago
@BeauPeap And I'm sure he would not have approved of Indian mistreatment of Native Europeans either. Fault on both sides. Forgiveness on both sides is needed as well.
FaganRoberts 1 year ago
@FaganRoberts If someone runs you out of your home, burns your house down, kills your livestock, and takes title to your property by force, and you defend yourself, and try to stop him, is that mistreating "someone"?
BeauPeap 1 year ago
@BeauPeap I am sorry for what I did to the Indians. I forgive them for what they've done to me.
Why cannot you do the same? All that hatred for the White man is going to burn you out one day.
FaganRoberts 1 year ago
@FaganRoberts You seem not to comprehend what I have earlier stated; I don't hate the white man, if so I would hate myself. It just seems wrong, to me, that most people (excluding Native Americans) seem to believe that God has handed us this country on a silver platter, and that God stands behind everything that our Founding Fathers have done. Native Americans will never recover any of the real estate "held title to" by their ancestors. Changing one word of our motto would be truthful.
BeauPeap 1 year ago
@BeauPeap I essentially agree with what you're saying. But the Indians never "held title" to any of the lands. The Indians were squatters. No one owned any land except perhaps the Iroquios Nations of the midwest. The Europeans were colonists while eventually establishing titled legal territories under preexisting laws. Myself, I don't believe in a god, particularly one that recognizes land establishments, whether ancient or contemporary, given/ taken by warfare, colonization or simple economics.
FaganRoberts 1 year ago
@FaganRoberts You will note that I had quotation marks each side of "held title to". Should you ever visit my channel, you would find two videos dealing with "our" treatment of Native Americans. What got me started in this,
was a newspaper article in a local area, the author complaining about government's ability to take part or all of one's "private property," such as for road construction, etc. He threw in the words "our sacred rights" of private property ownership. This struck a nerve.
BeauPeap 1 year ago
@BeauPeap I understand. Will do. Thanks for your response.
FaganRoberts 1 year ago
Let's not revise history. We were a Christian nation but through fabian socialism we have become a European Socialist nanny state. All equally poor. All equally unemployed. Atheism is fine as an idea, but don't force socialism on me as an atheist government. Leave me alone. I hate queers. I am an atheist.
ToxicOdiousOne 1 year ago
Religion? various groups of humans who often gather to talk in ancient, backward, primitive ways about events that never happened. Then admonish all non-believers as evil and destined for an afterlife of misery and pain, at the behest of a loving and all knowing super-being that lives in the sky, and as soon as they are done lecturing their meek flock with their idea of what is right or wrong, they encourage each other to chant songs to the magic sky friend? and I'M the weird atheist?
yellowkrypton 1 year ago
this is how that slogan came to be on the american dollar. "put in greed we trust on the bills." printer person hard of hearing says "what?" "I said put in greed we trust on the bills!" printer person misunderstands the words and thinks he says put in GOD we trust on the bills and smiles. "Oh ok thats a good idea!" the money is printed with in GOD we trust and the people rejoice while the people in the government are furious but, are afraid to change it for fears of being lynched.
doctorw2 1 year ago
This is the video of a blind fool.Who's pyramid seal is on the $1?THE FREEMASON'S.Who's God is of the Freemason?THE BAPHOMET!Why are the floors in ALL capital buildings checkered?FOR THE MASONS!In God We Trust has NOTHING to do with Jesus or the bible cuz he aint the God of the Masons but our nation is totally run by the Masons.Its a sick joke on you.And you fell for it.
Rock3t138 1 year ago
@Rock3t138 Yea, and what are you doing about it, you useless fuck?
Oh wow, you 'figured out' a joke which may or may not actually exist. And here you are, saving the world from the lizard people by going around on Youtube yakking on about how much more enlightened you are because you know 'the truth'.
Get a life. People like you don't care about 'the truth' or sharing it, you only care about pretending to yourself that you're actually worth something. My bathroom has checkered tiles, btw.
TalonWolf 1 year ago
@Rock3t138 IOh please. If the Freemasons control the USA, why are their poor freemasons? I'm not a mason, but I'm also not a conspiracy nut. You don't need to be a mason in order to be President of the USA, but you do need to be male and a Christian.
Now take your medication like a good troll.
drfoxcourt 1 year ago
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As a matter of historical fact, America entered into the Treaty of Tripoli in 1797 which included in part the following statement: "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion "
lvdovicvs 1 year ago
"Mind your business." I want it back, I want it back right now because that is awesome. Its right up there with "dont tread on me" and "live free or die."
Snipe4261 1 year ago
what do you mean by the term "founded as a Christian nation". i don not mean this as an inflammatory response
artx4321 1 year ago
Hard to really say that Mind Your Business was the motto of the entire country. Under the Articles of Confederation all of the States had the right to their own coinage. Mind Your Business was probably the motto of one of the States. However, as far as I am aware, E Pluribus Unum was the original motto of the United States of America at the time the original thirteen States ratified the Constitution. Hooray for hair splitting! :)
TheRationalHatter 1 year ago
America used to be a place where you could do what you wanted (considering it didnt impact other people), now its a place where half the people just want to make everyone elses life as fucking miserable as possible.
boonw 1 year ago
Shouldn't it say:
In the Federal Bank We Trust
I mean they issue the bank notes right?
komninosm 1 year ago
G. H. W. Bush is a fundamentalist religious bigot!
freethinker923 1 year ago 2
Do those folk believe they were born with clothes attached to there bodies?, idiots.
nightmaregildon 1 year ago
Your voice is great. Can I have sex with your voice?
atheistvstheist 1 year ago 23
@atheistvstheist Be gentle.
eequalsfb 1 year ago 28
@eequalsfb lol
zodiakranch 1 year ago
"Mind your own business." That is an ass kicking moto. Of course the fundies had to go and screw that up.
ozmoroid 1 year ago
@ozmoroid
I think if someone pointed this out the Tea Party nutters, they might actually like it...
Go figure. Something we can agree on.
middlekk 1 year ago
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@ozmoroid said - "Mind your own business." That is an ass kicking moto. Of course the fundies had to go and screw that up.
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Even if that motto was still in effect it wouldn't help. Watching out for everybody else's personal business IS the fundies' business.
Noisegator 1 year ago
Wasn't "E Pluribus Unum" the motto between "Mind your Business" and "In God We Trust?"
ChuckyJesus666 1 year ago 5
@ChuckyJesus666 Not really. "We Are One" was on the back of the original "Mind Your Business" coins. This was the phrase replaced by the Latin version "E Pluribus Unum" (Of Many, One). E Pluribus Unum remains on a lot of the "In God We Trust" money, so it was not an intermediate of the two mottos. Different animal altogether.
eequalsfb 1 year ago 5
The US Congress room has on it's walls two big symbols of fascism on it. The Fasci
which is a bundle of sticks wrapped together with an axe attached.
Fight4Privacy 1 year ago
Glad to see this type of video from you again.
Saduwo 1 year ago
Why do you athiests have your panties in a wad? How have you personally been harmed by religion? Don't give me some sob story about how mom and dad forced you to go to church. I mean real, demonstrable harm. Fact is 99.9% can't. Stop wasting your time on opposing religion and focus on improving yourselves - give shelter to the homeless, food to the poor, and all of those other things religious people do. Then maybe people would stop viewing athiests as a bunch of selfish assholes.
moosepok 1 year ago
@moosepok A person cannot be harmed by 'religion', as it isn't a physical entity that can do harm. What religion does is congregates people into a set of beliefs (often vague and varied) that allows people to validate these beliefs through consensus, even if the belief is harmful and unjust. In turn this DOES have the ability to harm the minds of people, and those who disagree. This is a concern as these people are humans, brothers and sisters... what happens to them, should concern us.
rdubtastic 1 year ago
Great Video
MedievalMike490 1 year ago
Awesome
Ahasuer 1 year ago
Fantastic video.
ninjapirate0507 1 year ago
It is actually more simple than that.
Commandment #1: Worship only Yahweh.
Amendment #1: Worship whomever you please.
This is in direct conflict with Judeo-Christian doctrine.
cablepanos 1 year ago
"Mind Your Business"
Buahaha... That's a great motto actually.
caseyrainer 1 year ago
"Mind your business" <--- That's awesome! I didn't know that, they should totally put that back!!! We must campaign for it or something! If they did, this would make the country much better...
MastermindX 1 year ago
Great video! Who are you responding to ? Don't forget to add the link !!
I bet it was this guy...
watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
insightnew 1 year ago
@insightnew Could be. I was going to point out on that video how secular those presidents he named were but of course like almost all Christian videos on YouTube THE COMMENTS ARE DISABLED. There's a long list of presidents who confirmed the division of state and church. All the "important ones" too.
warren52nz 1 year ago
Oh shit! "mind your business" would be 100% unamerican today!
piip4 1 year ago
our other motto is e pluribis unum. one in many? one in many what? gods of course. we are a polytheistic nation, christians can just leave
arachnophile01 1 year ago
Yeah! I love your vids too. Faved and I will be sharing... Keep up the great work.
fiusux12 1 year ago
Really good video there
DebateCreation 1 year ago
The Bush's always get nailed with their phony pious religious pronouncements, and rightly so. But one should also look at the pious hypocrite President Jimmy Carter and what he had to say regarding religion. But unfortunately most atheists consider Jimmy a no touch because he was a liberal Democrat. As if the Bush's were really all that conservative to begin with. Bring back Thomas Jefferson. Even if it pisses off the anti-Libertarians!
FaganRoberts 1 year ago
@FaganRoberts "Bring back Thomas Jefferson."
Yes!
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
- Thomas Jefferson
Imaginefree69 1 year ago
I love you videos man
Craigipedia 1 year ago
It was an oxymoron to say that you were going to be using the logic of christian nation against itself. The same as military intelligence or intelligent theist.
Xwowplaya 1 year ago
You have to be a Christian in order to get into heaven! Yahweh is a loving God and loves each and everyone of us. The earth is less than 10 000 years old and the devil planted dinosaur fossils in order to test our faith. Ahhh who am I kidding? Yahweh is a genocidal freak and all religious people have been brainwashed. In God we trust yeah right.
kansaimagic 1 year ago
Is was "Mind your business"? I didn't know that. lol That's brilliant! They never should have changed it.
ChaoticSupernova 1 year ago
It's "WE the PEOPLE" not "WE the SLAVES of YAHWEH".
UNITED WE STAND or DIVIDED WE FALL.
You choose, theists.
EntinludeX 1 year ago 5
@EntinludeX United we stand or divided we fall, indeed. The irony is that the pledge talks about how we stand united (indivisible), directly after excluding atheists, agnostics, deists and polytheists.
eequalsfb 1 year ago 8
@eequalsfb I think that's about the time irony lost all it's meaning and hypocrisy became a fashion statement.
EntinludeX 1 year ago
@eequalsfb Well the words "under God" were not part of the original pledge of allegiance. The phrase was incorporated into the Pledge of Allegiance June 14, 1954. I choose simply to say the original Pledge which does not discriminate based on religion. :)
TheMelancholyGoddess 1 year ago
@EntinludeX We must stand together or we will surely hang together.
-Benjamin Franklin
I agree.
popebiscuit666 1 year ago
"Mind your business" and "Don't tread on me" are easily the best national mottos EVAR.
SexyMelon 1 year ago
I thought "in god we trust" showed up on money in 1955 during the Cold War.? Whick one is correct?
Thanks
roaminn 1 year ago
@roaminn It was the pledge that was altered in 1954. That must be what you're thinking of.
eequalsfb 1 year ago
Mind your business? That's fantastic! No war with the Middle-East or world policing would have occurred with such a noble motto!
Athaeus 1 year ago 2
Dunno why but "In God We Trust" always reminds me of Big Brother and thought-control.
philhellenes 1 year ago 3
So glad I discovered your channel....
supersmellyman 1 year ago 3
Mind your business? Hell yeah i like that.
If that were on my money i'd be happy with that :)
Bushes = more successful palins (should be ignored by all, especially ones that are burning.... get it? oh never mind)
Patriotism is a destructive mindset, blind allegiance to your country or social group is unhealthy, the reason why i dislike our royal family.
hildegain 1 year ago
Oh man, If our motto now was "mind your business"... Things would be a lot better, that's for sure.
T0mmy9898 1 year ago 9
@T0mmy9898 Christians routinely ignore their holy scripture where it doesn't suit them. I am doubtful that the national coinage motto would persuade them to behave differently.
eequalsfb 1 year ago
@eequalsfb : (
T0mmy9898 1 year ago
Great rebuttal.
.. and the other side of that coin says "we are one" with interlocking rings to represent different cultures and beliefs coming together to mind their own shit.
but religious bigots will still claim this country belongs to them because American History, The Preamble, The Declaration, The Constitution and even Truth itself don't mean shit them. They pledge allegiance to Mother Goose er_ I mean The Bible er_ I mean the guy who stars in Mother_ um The Bible.
onlywhenprovoked 1 year ago
@onlywhenprovoked *nod*
eequalsfb 1 year ago
If even 10% of Atheists put a big red "circle slash" over the word "God" on all the bills that they transacted, very soon a substantial percent of bills would be altered in this way.
This might help people stop and think: "wow, there really are people who don't believe in God" (increasing awareness re: atheists) and "maybe we shouldn't have God's name right there on the money where Atheists can deface it".
online4videos 1 year ago
@online4videos I like to cross out "God" and put in the names of other gods. Ra, Odin, Zeus, Apsu, Sor, Karn, Ea, El, Bok, Tor, etc.
LordSlag 1 year ago
@SomethingSeaTrashed actually the whole Side Hug idea is good for family members, I hate hugging female family members, lol
HugNow 1 year ago
"Mind Your Business"! Someone start a petition!
RadarKat73080 1 year ago 2
What's wrong with being unamerican anyway? What kind of behavior should be considered "american"? Prayer? I never understood what I was pledging to when I recited the pledge of allegiance as a child. When it started to feel like a prayer, I stopped doing it and just stood up with the rest of the class. Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli should be enough to convince any fundamentalist that this is a secular nation, or at least not a christian one.
PluralOfEverything 1 year ago 4
@PluralOfEverything good point, this whole nationalistic "american" patriot garbage bothers me. What is america? it's a dumpster of all different people who could not make it in their other countries.. just like Canada.. I have no canadian pride because canada means nothing to me. Well, that's being a bit hateful to my own country, lol, but I have never known what actually being canadian means. And what is american? no one can describe it. Just a multicultural dumpster I guess.
HugNow 1 year ago
@HugNow I think that multicultural is exactly what a nation should be. Every group tries so hard to hold on to its own traditions and values by shutting out all other influences. If we had learned from the natives rather than destroy them, we could have taught them as well, and both peoples would have been better off in the long run. As long as people fear change, the human race will not unify the way it needs to in order to undo the damage it has done to the planet and survive into eternity.
PluralOfEverything 1 year ago
@PluralOfEverything multi culturism is fine if it is the mix of correct cultures. Unfortunately when bad cultures infect a country and they try to push their own agendas on your country, that's where it gets bad. Look at sweden as an example. Canada is pretty good, where I live, but I know many places in canada where I probably wouldn't want to live, such as the extremely multi cultural materialistic TORONTO.
HugNow 1 year ago
@HugNow American culture is too materialistic also. I hate the attitude that life is a big stuff collecting contest. We make fun of people like the Amish, but I think there's a lot we could learn from their way of life.
PluralOfEverything 1 year ago
@PluralOfEverything that's easier said than done, I'm not necessarily afraid of change, but here in my country we have a number of immigrants who have a different view on things than the natives. Some of these things are totally against what I, and fellow citizens, think is right. I don't mind if they do that, as long as they do it in their own country, where it's accepted.
OhReallyNoWai 1 year ago
@OhReallyNoWai That is why people on both sides of an issue have to understand each other's position. The people who think something is right that you think is wrong have to understand why you think that, and vice versa. Then a compromise has to be reached, or one side has to completely change their point of view, which would mean the loss of a part of their culture. We all have to decide whether or not our culture is more important than doing the right thing.
PluralOfEverything 1 year ago
@PluralOfEverything
The original idea of the united states was that you were free, freedom of press, freedom of expression, freedom of relgion. So no it is not acceptable to say for example gay marriage is wrong just because a certain brainwashed group doesn't like it and it offends their cultural ideal. America is a melting pot of culture it is therefor not a defined culture so arguing against changes to this culture is redundant as the entirety of US culture is the addition of new cultures.
JamesThWilliams 1 year ago
@JamesThWilliams The united states wasn't some wonderland of freedom in the early days. New cultures have never found it easy to "melt in". There has always been intolerance. The united states exists for a few people to have power over everybody else. That's why all nations exist.
PluralOfEverything 1 year ago
@PluralOfEverything Multiculturalism is fine until one culture, by sheer numerical majority or influence, overtakes the others thereby asserting their traditions, values, etc. Multiculturalism through diversity destroys unity within a nation leaving voids in it's wake, always striving to be filled. Then as always, religion and superstition steps in attempting to unify whilst leaving the gullible people delusional and stupified. Multiculturalism and religion is poison.
FaganRoberts 1 year ago
@FaganRoberts Religion and superstition are the basis for a lot of traditions, and groups are very resistant to changing traditions they think the creator of the universe endorses. It's sad that people feel a need for it. Maybe the solution isn't a total mixing of cultures. Maybe the answer is respect for different cultures, which will continue to exist for as long as people remember their heritage.
PluralOfEverything 1 year ago
@PluralOfEverything Yes, I agree with what you wrote. Mutual respect for individuals and a comensurate respect for different cultures providing none get dynamic about it. But as in all cases, I should not be compelled to respect it. I can never respect something or someone out of feigned necessity, or by matter of coercion, merely because someone or some pressure group tells me I ought to, sans reasons. Good points.
FaganRoberts 1 year ago
@PluralOfEverything I agree with you about patriotism. It is the same blind faith nonsense that religion represents.
eequalsfb 1 year ago 9
@eequalsfb American is the official religion of the united states. It became painfully clear right after 9/11. You should hear my grandpa talk about muslims. It's horrible.
PluralOfEverything 1 year ago
money = god
hug = satan
HugNow 1 year ago
People like god LOL!!!!!!!!!
Ravelmoore 1 year ago
Any self-respecting country should have a Latin motto. Why not go back to "E pluribus unum"?
dave28lax 1 year ago
@dave28lax or "Felius Canorum." Maybe "Dona Caput."
I really like "Mind Your Own Business."
The Arizona motto: "We Oughta Put Em All On An Island."
TheOtherSide100 1 year ago