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D. Medvedev Fan
November 11th 2006, 03:36 PM
According Jason Ball, student trustee of Orange Coast College, "if you know your history, you know that 'under God' was inserted during the McCarthy era and was directly designed to destroy my ideology."

Is that true that the "under God" was added in the McCarthy are?

Source of quote http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/california-students-ban-pledge-of/20061110073709990026?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Minnesota
November 11th 2006, 03:44 PM
Is that true that the "under God" was added in the McCarthy are?

Yes, it is true. On June 14, 1954 to be percise.
Amazing Rando
November 11th 2006, 03:46 PM
Around the same time "In God We Trust" was placed on US currencyif I'm not mistaken.
Teallaura
November 11th 2006, 05:17 PM
Ball is a communist? :twitch:

By the way, he's killed his own argument with his terminology. If atheism is no more than an ideology it doesn't enjoy the same level of protection as religion.
brother vinny
November 12th 2006, 09:46 AM
Around the same time "In God We Trust" was placed on US currencyif I'm not mistaken.

Um, you're mistaken.

Teddy Roosevelt, when he commissioned the gold double-eagle coin, specifically said he did not want the motto "In God We Trust" to appear on it, because he suspected the coin would be popular in gambling halls and did not want to see God's name profaned.

And Teddy was worm food well before the '50's.
Amazing Rando
November 12th 2006, 07:00 PM
Um, you're mistaken.

Teddy Roosevelt, when he commissioned the gold double-eagle coin, specifically said he did not want the motto "In God We Trust" to appear on it, because he suspected the coin would be popular in gambling halls and did not want to see God's name profaned.

And Teddy was worm food well before the '50's.

I stand corrected. :yes: Wikipedia says the motto was on US currency back in Civil War days. I had confused that with its being made the official national motto, which Eisenhower did in 1956.
Mark_S
November 12th 2006, 07:05 PM
I stand corrected. :yes: Wikipedia says the motto was on US currency back in Civil War days. I had confused that with its being made the official national motto, which Eisenhower did in 1956.

:yes:

It was a Civil War thing. I think its first appearance was on a 3c piece?
neocon_voter
November 12th 2006, 07:11 PM
2 cent coins in the 1860s
Here is one for auction on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1864-2-Cents-AU-lot-16_W0QQitemZ200046931142QQihZ010QQcategoryZ3356QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Neocon_Voter
Amazing Rando
November 12th 2006, 07:23 PM
:yes:

It was a Civil War thing. I think its first appearance was on a 3c piece?

We need to bring back the three cent piece. And also perhaps an eight-cent coin too. :thumb:
Minnesota
November 12th 2006, 07:38 PM
We need to bring back the three cent piece. And also perhaps an eight-cent coin too.
Might want to think twice about that. Right now too many cashiers rely on cash registers that display "Cash Back" to figure out the amount.
Storico
November 28th 2006, 01:59 AM
Might want to think twice about that. Right now too many cashiers rely on cash registers that display "Cash Back" to figure out the amount.

I had to laugh. I've worked part-time as a cashier for over three years... and let me tell you, some of our newbies can't for the LIFE of them figure out how to VERY quickly give someone change back if they hand over $2.00 for something worth $1.39... they always ask me "um.. how do you count up from an uneven number...??" while the customer is either patiently or not-so-patiently waiting for their sixty-one cents. I finally hit their "change owed button" and :ahem: ....

Yeah, PLEASE no 8-cent coins. Please. *feels a headache coming on*