I think I’ve figured this one out. SmashTheState is actually a member of the Bloods. From here:
Kase klosed.
George Washington just looks pissed off.
A tender young penis is no good. A dick gots to be big and hard that thrusts into you with a force that rivals the power and glory of a Saturn V rocket as it roars off the platform and penetrates the heavens above! Tender penises are for pussies.
sits down and fans his face
looks for a cigarette
This is not a correct statement, you know. Never has been. 
They look vaguely cartoonish, like a Civ IV portrait
Unless you are arguing that the term “In God We Trust” is used in some other context than the typical religious connotation, it most certainly does establish religion and since the term is required by law on currency and by law was established as our national motto, it directly contradicts the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
“The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft the sacred bottle opener from the bosom of the water, signifying by Divine Providence that Coca-Cola was to was to be popped by that opener. THAT is why it is your king!”
Don’t worry, his coin will only be in circulation for thirty days.
Odd, but the Courts have ruled otherwise several times. Perhaps you know more about the Constitution than they do?
If you said that Coca-Cola was the ruling brand of cola, I would think you were using the word “ruling” in a rather unconventional way.
Calling Catholicism the “ruling” religion in Canada is particularly amusing given that same-sex marriage is legal, discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation is illegal, abortion is legal, birth control is legal, divorce is legal, etc. etc. etc. I tried to google it, but my googling isn’t up to par for something that far back - didn’t a Catholic archbishop say that MPs that voted in favour of same-sex marriage would not be allowed to take communion? Doesn’t sound like that decree had much effect.
But then again, you were talking about Kanada. I don’t know what goes on there.
He posed for that picture right after Congress had been giving him a hard time about his expense account.
“Look, I lost the receipt for the boat rental for crossing the Delaware! I swear, it cost $1.50! And I didn’t get the deposit back, either.”
Yes, as a matter of fact, we do. Every single Supreme Court ruling supporting “ceremonial deism” is, in fact, completely wrong-headed, and I, for one, will be ecstatic when the time comes that future members of the Supreme Court overturn all such decisions.
Probably not in my lifetime, unfortunately.
I don’t find it odd. But I do find it an injustice. In much the same manner as I would have found miscegenation laws an injustice. In the same manner that I find same sex marriage discrimination an injustice. Sometimes, it just takes the court a little longer to correct injustices.
I’m hoping to see this particular injustice corrected in my lifetime.
You’re much younger than I am, I assume. cough52*cough
Oh, I dunno, I kind of like the formulation of ceremonial deism as a way to compromise, mostly because I don’t really think the issue is worth hassling people about. I like and respect any number of people with sincere religious convictions, I am not openly blasphemous in their presence because it would hurt their feelings. For what?
To forbid the tradition of poetic invocations, whether to an obscure deity of a wandering Semitic tribe or a invisible pink unicorn, I need take some action to change it, I need to overwhelm the opinions of people who are comforted thereby. For what? Let them have it, nothing to me. If I were seriously injured by the abstract folly of my fellows, I would have shriveled up and died some time ago.
You got to choose your battles, or waste your ammunition. This one is not worth it. And may the Goddess hold you snug to Her bountiful bosom, all the days of your life, amen. The blessing is sincere, the theology is unimportant.
While I feel the same as you do on this subject (I’ll happily respond, “Merry Christmas!”), the support for “In God We Trust” on our money, and “under God” in our Pledge of Allegiance, and “thou shalt have no God before me” in our civic parks, is hardly ceremonial. It is instead an insistance that the U.S. is a Christian nation, and is an expectation that the laws of the U.S. should support Christian beliefs, and is an expectation that the public displays of the U.S. should demonstrate that Christianity.
In what way do you see it as blasphemous (or even rude) to not mention God on our money or in our Pledge or in our parks?
You missed a spot. I mean it is not important enough to force the issue, not important enough to insist otherwise. I’m not upset that the abstract being Justice being represented as a sort of goddess, its a kind of poetry, isn’t it? Now, if someone were to insist on changing coins to read “Jesus Saves”, well, he and me are gonna have a problem. Thats more specific, when you talk about Jesus, you probably only have about a thousand or so major interpretations of the meaning, whereas with “God”, its such an abstraction that my Congresscritter, Mr Ellison, can hear it spoken and simply interpret it as “Allah”.
The traditions of deism so frequently squabbled over when discussing our Founding Fuckups offer some precedent. An Enlightenment Deist was unlikely to exclusively define “God” to be the “Jehovah” of some obscure nomadic band of shepherds. An obscure tribe, we mustn’t forget, that provided most of the stand-up comics and entertainers of the ancient world. What, surely you’ve heard of King Solomon’s mimes?
Not only that, but many of the politicians most directly responsible for most of this stuff were themselves Catholic. Trudeau enacted the Charter. Martin was PM when same-sex marriage was legalized, and the bill passed in no small part due to almost unanimous support from the Bloc who are predominantly Catholic. The RCC hasn’t had diddly squat for political power in Canada since the Quiet Revolution - not that it really had much outside of Quebec even before then.
I missed Judaism? I missed Islam? I missed Zoroastrianism?
You’re welcome to correct me on precisely which god you believe is being referred to by the word “God” in ceremonial deism as it exists in the U.S. If you believe it is any other than the Christian god, I can only ask, “Naive much?”
In what way do you see it as blasphemous (or even rude) to not mention any god at all on our money, in our pledge, and in our parks? In what way do you believe that even ceremonial support of any god by our government is not a slap to those who do not believe in that god?