# "Refuse new coins" e-mail **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239 "2009-08-04T00:34:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/1 "2009-08-04T00:34:54Z")
Got a bit of spam today exhorting people to boycott the [new dollar coin](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oYD2ciuxz6U/Rc87NjfJg2I/AAAAAAAAAKg/4k2jOURbwAA/s400/DollarCoin.png) – not because it bears the ugliest likeness of George Washington ever made, but because it does not say “In God We Trust” on it. :rolleyes: Culture warriors should choose their battles more carefully . . . ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/2 "2009-08-04T00:38:06Z")
Smart move, if perhaps inadvertant. All the dollar coins have failed miserably, when this one does, they can claim victory. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/3 "2009-08-04T00:39:06Z")
Well, if they had _intended_ to include “In God We Trust” on the coin from the beginning, they wouldn’t have had to squeeze it onto the edge as an afterthought. :mad: You can’t even take a proper rubbing from the edge! Where’s the piety in that? GRRRR! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/4 "2009-08-04T00:46:35Z")
[The Mint’s website](http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm) says “In God We Trust” will appear on the presidential dollar coins starting this year. I guess they got a lot of angry letters already. I Pit the morons who have a problem with this, but I also Pit the Treasury officials who should have seen it coming. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/5 "2009-08-04T00:48:06Z")
A day late and a [dollar](http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp) short… I love it when idiots send ancient spam that is way past it’s sell-by date. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/6 "2009-08-04T00:59:29Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [The Mint’s website](http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm)… William Henry Harrison looks like he’s got a third eye, sloppily centered on his forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/7 "2009-08-04T00:59:56Z")
_reply all_ Dear Pen Pal, I do understand your rage and I want to do something about it, as you are clearly unhappy. Please forward to me any / all of this Godless Heathen Currency which troubles you so, and I promise to dispose of every cent of it through American Owned companies. I also hearby solumnly promise that after every purchase I will not only loudly testify ‘Amen!’, but will shout out loudly to all those around me, ‘God Bless America…!’ Sincerely, Count Blucher * * * Please feel free to forward them my response and please forward any/all funds you recieve to my account at the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/8 "2009-08-04T01:02:32Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > A day late and a [dollar](http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp) short… > I love it when idiots send ancient spam that is way past it’s sell-by date. Probably because Obama was not POTUS in 2007. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/9 "2009-08-04T01:05:51Z")
Can we also pit former Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase (who recommended the phrase be printed on coins), the 38th Congress (which passed the Coinage Act of 1864 allowing that) as well as the 84th Congress (which adopted the phrase as our national motto and mandated that it appear on all U.S. currency thereafter). Props go out to Theodore Roosevelt who was against printing the phrase on coinage and felt it was practically sacrilege, but it would have been nice if he’d brought up the fact that it flies in the face of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. ---
**Author:** ![SmashTheState](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@SmashTheState](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmashTheState)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/10 "2009-08-04T01:12:13Z")
I think it makes perfect theological sense to print “In God We Trust” on Amerikan coinage. When Yeshua was asked whether Jews should pay taxes, his famous response was to hold up a coin with the emperor’s picture and say, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s.” Given that Amerikan churches are all about accumulating wealth, it makes perfect sense to put God on the money. They should therefore also put “In God We Trust” on hookers, airport bathroom stall glory holes, all wire hangars, and the tender young penises of altar boys. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/11 "2009-08-04T01:14:54Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#): > > I think it makes perfect theological sense to print “In God We Trust” on Amerikan coinage. When Yeshua was asked whether Jews should pay taxes, his famous response was to hold up a coin with the emperor’s picture and say, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s.” Given that Amerikan churches are all about accumulating wealth, it makes perfect sense to put God on the money. They should therefore also put “In God We Trust” on hookers, airport bathroom stall glory holes, all wire hangars, and the tender young penises of altar boys. Is there something wrong with your spell checker? ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/12 "2009-08-04T01:18:14Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Is there something wrong with your spell checker? Can you imagine giving yourself an abortion with an object large enough to hold an airplane? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/13 "2009-08-04T01:18:59Z")
Nostalgia. Its a long story. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/14 "2009-08-04T01:24:49Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#): > > Given that Amerikan churches are all about accumulating wealth, it makes perfect sense to put God on the money. Out of idle curiousity, what are Kanadian churches all about? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/15 "2009-08-04T01:25:48Z")
Half your prayers must be in French. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/16 "2009-08-04T01:27:16Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > Can we also pit former Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase (who recommended the phrase be printed on coins), … _Some_one I know has recently picked up the habit of using a Sharpie to draw a black bar over the “In God” on all of his paper currency. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/17 "2009-08-04T01:33:23Z")
> [@SmashTheState](#): > > Given that Amerikan churches are all about accumulating wealth, it makes perfect sense to put God on the money. The logical conclusion of your little analogy is that churches should render unto Caesar by paying taxes, but having finally managed to work “the tender young penises of altar boys” into the conversation must be a relief. ---
**Author:** ![SmashTheState](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@SmashTheState](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmashTheState)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/18 "2009-08-04T01:42:23Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Out of idle curiousity, what are Kanadian churches all about? Given that Roman Catholicism is the ruling religion in Kanada, the focus is a little bit different. The Catholics certainly have their share of wealth-accumulation, and they are certainly the world’s oldest and largest criminal syndicate, but they have the benefit of a long, long history (and coffers already overflowing with two millenia of stolen wealth), in which they’ve acquired a taste for power beyond simple riches. The Catholics focus more on control through guilt and its accompanying soothing ritual than they do the crass accumulation of material goods hand over fist, like one generally sees in Amerika. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/19 "2009-08-04T01:50:16Z")
Are the dollar coins in common use anywhere? I’ve yet to get one in change or from anyone other than my bank (and then because I requested one). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239/20 "2009-08-04T01:51:54Z")
> [@Carol\_Stream](#): > > Out of idle curiousity, what are Kanadian churches all about? Hockey and beer. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refuse-new-coins-e-mail/505239.md?page=2)