Louisiana public schools now required to display 'In God We Trust' in all classrooms
Louisiana public schools now required to display 'In God We Trust' in all classrooms
All Louisiana public schools are now required to display the national motto of “In God We Trust” inside of classrooms, under a new law that went into effect on August 1.
The bill’s author, state Rep. Dodie Horton, said to CNN affiliate WVUE, “It doesn’t preach any particular religion at all, but it certainly does recognize a higher power.”
Satanists, do your thing! I fucking hate these attempts to make the US a christofascist country. I wonder if there will be arguments about whether Trump, DeSantis and their ilk were Christians in 80 years.
106As a Satanist, I would love to challenge this, but this one is unfortunately much more difficult to challenge than, say, the 10 Commandments because Christians managed to fuck up our national motto. And all this law is doing is requiring teachers to put our national motto up in classrooms.
36It's crazy because the first amendment literally says that there should be no national religion, yet it's acceptable that "in god we trust" because it's not a specific religion. That's just such a bad faith interpretation of the law. Plus it's always the "constitutionalists" who are pushing this kind of shit, which I guess is the kind of hypocrisy we've all come to expect from them.
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It shows a bias to monotheistic religions. I don't understand how that's justifiably neutral enough.
92Sadly, the Supreme Court came up wit the bullshit idea of ceremonial deism and here we are.
32In Satan we trust!
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Social studies teacher here. Aside from the obvious church/state problems with this, there might be an easy way around it for teachers: put up a poster with a dollar bill on it. Less conspicuous, still follows the letter of the shitty law.
88Could they not also put up multiple banners stating "in [yet another diety] we trust" and continue with "in [notable scholar] we trust" etc... Dilute the message intended by the law?
38Oh please hang it up and make it say "in Allah we trust". Anti discrimination and shit.
15some people say
in god we trust
with knowledge, trust is not necessary: you know5Give kids extra credit formless defacing it. “In God We
trustThrust” and then send the bill for constant replacing of said signage to the state.5
Just hang it up in Arabic.
18I hated social studies in school but the teachers were always the coolest ones. Nice to see the tradition is being carried on.
7Pretty sure the law specifies minimum size of the poster and states that the motto must be the focus of the poster...
I think multiple signs from many deities might be nice. Especially the flying spaghetti monster.
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I'm all for people's religious freedoms but this kind of BS is a huge problem. They act like we are requiring the LGBTQ flag in every classroom and respond by doing the exact thing they accuse others of doing.
77This is one of the hallmarks of fascist movements. Accuse your opponent of what you yourself are doing as a justification for your own bad actions. It's straight out of the Joseph Goebbels playbook. The republicans have been using it successfully for at least 30 years now, but we're going to see it used more and more blatantly as the GOP becomes more and more openly fascist.
38It’s all projection.
Every thing they say, somewhere one of them is doing it.
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While the “In God We Trust” motto does not reference any one religion, critics of the law fear it will further blur the lines separating church and state, which follows a pattern seen in Southern legislatures in recent years.
74Satan is not God though is he/it? So they are discriminating. It has to be challenged by those legends at the church of satan.
16Not only that, but what if I observe more then one god huh?
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Would she be just as ambivalent if it was “In Allah we trust”?
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Separation of church and state and all of that...
70The SCOTUS has ruled that the phrase "In God We Trust" is not a religious statement, because the SCOTUS is a joke. That wasn't even this SCOTUS.
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As long as it's only in Arabic, I'm cool with it.
Watching all those fucking hypocrites melt the fuck down would almost be worth the chaos. :D
64“It doesn’t preach any particular religion at all, but it certainly does recognize a higher power.”
aka fuck atheists
Freedom of religion includes freedom from religion dumbass.
50Yup. Also the largest growing philosophy, for lack of a better word, in the US. Also the one that’s most dangerous because we’re okay with ignoring their brimstone and hellfire.
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It doesn’t say where it has to be displayed. Laminate that shit and put it on the floor so it can be stepped on every day.
40It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.'
R.I.P. Douglas Adams.
7“make sure you wipe your feet kids!”
4This is the way
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Your mission if you choose to accept it. Switch the ‘G’ and the ‘d’ so it says ‘ In doG We Trust. Thereby altering the meaning completely. Sit back smoke a joint and watch the chaos ensue
9Just add a h to trust.
4Trusth?
3In dog we thrust? 🤨📷
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Hurray for regression!
8In which of my gods am I supposed to trust?
7How is this even legal?
6So which one are they supposed to trust?
1Those pieces of shit, displaying official US motto that is used since Civil War! It's just not right...
-37You are thinking of "E pluribus unum" , which was our original motto from the civil war until the whole communist scare in the 50s. So.....
19As you've already been told, only since the 1950s, and it's fucking discriminatory, so yes, they're pieces of shit.
15How does it feel to be so so so easily verifiablly wrong?
13It's just been since the cold war though. It was used to put emphasis on the religious righteousness of the US versus the Godless culture of the communists.
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