LOL!!!! Score!
Posted on 05/20/2006 9:07:52 AM PDT by Phil Harmonic
08:37 AM CDT on Saturday, May 20, 2006 WFAA-TV
The freedom of religion at Liberty Elementary School has gone too far for some parents at the Colleyville school.
The cover of the Keller ISD school's annual depicts the 2005 Liberty Nickel – complete with the face of Thomas Jefferson – but the words "In God We Trust" are missing.
Instead, the $16 yearbook contains a sticker with the credo and directions on how to apply it to the cover if the owner chooses.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
No, but it apparently offends you and your ilk. The principal of that school, the ACLU...
My offense is that you are going out of your way to tweak people's nose, and then sanctimoniously declaring that anyone who gets offended belongs on DU.
(No one ended up beheaded, no embassies were burned down by mobs following either "Last Temptation of Christ" or "Piss Christ.") If money bearing the legend "In God We Trust" offends you, use a credit card or give the money to those whom it does not offend.
Full Disclosure: Insert your own "The love of money is the root of all evil" or "Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar..." joke here.
Cheers!
> but it apparently offends you and your ilk
Please, by all means, define my "ilk." Here's a hint: I ain't atheist.
> If money bearing the legend "In God We Trust" offends you, use a credit card or give the money to those whom it does not offend.
That's not the debate. The debates is, does money *not* bearing that false motto offend *you*?
> However, your persistent and argumentative presence on Christian-related threads marks you as either an anti-Christian, or a fellow who is trying really hard not to become a Christian (and losing the battle).
Option 3: read the tagline.
Yes, you have pegged him correctly. I've been encouraging others to ignore his slurs and trolling, and to ping the mods when it becomes over the top (which it frequently does). His problem shouldn't be FR's problem.
That's easy. Troll. See post #13 on this thread, posts 21 and 22 correcting you--I don't recall you saying you had checked out any links within those replies, let alone any discussion of the contents of those links, or acknowledgement that you were wrong...
So much for an over-reaching devotion to 'science' which you wrap about yourself in your tagline.
Instead, you changed the subject and searched for another way to try to bait Christians.
See your post 66 this thread, where you change the back of the dollar to read "In ODIN We Trust" with the font sizes and contents in such an arrangement that you completely live up to the accusation in post 57.
Judging from the first example, you consider yourself a Master Debator. Judging from the second example, you apparently consider yourself a Master Baiter. I would suggest that you have at least reached a homonym of the proper term for the way you've been acting on this thread.
Cheers!
LOL!!!! Score!
So, be honest for once. Do you agree with the actions taken by the school? A simple yes or no will do.
...sound of flickering light bulb candle appearing above my head.
You are referring to the "which race of Middle-Earth are you" on my home page.
Thanks very much.
Cheers!
Pfew... from your title I thought that money was embezzled.
Numenorean here as well.
I can vouch for that.
> That's easy. Troll. See post #13 on this thread
Wherein I point out that the national motto is "E Pluribus Unum."
> posts 21 and 22 correcting you
They did not "correct" me. Those posts showed that, yes, the "In God We Trust" line showed up occaisionally on money... but it was *not* our national motto until the 1950's.
> See your post 66 this thread, where you change the back of the dollar to read "In ODIN We Trust" with the font sizes and contents in such an arrangement that you completely live up to the accusation in post 57.
Ummm... are you aware that the dollar shown in post 66 is simply a modification of the one shown in post 57?
> you apparently consider yourself a Master Baiter.
Wow. That's truly inspired rhetoric.
> ping the mods when it becomes over the top (which it frequently does)
Like suggesting that fellow Americans should be mutilated for their religious beliefs or lack thereof?
Oh, wait. That wasn't me.
> His problem shouldn't be FR's problem.
Sadly, my "problem," that of conservatism being equated with religious fundamentalism, is *every* conservatives problem.
Not for long. I bet they are working on a zero tolerance policy.
Our national motto: "In God We Trust."
Yes we do TROLL, when the use of totalitarian methods are used to ram the liberal wing nut socialist beliefs down the throats of children in their formative years, mutilating their minds, contrary to the spirit of the first amendment.
Step up to the plate TROLL!
Take my comments out of context for your own TROLL purposes. I did not suggest that Americans be mutilated for their religious beliefs. I suggested that the admninsitrator of that school be branded with " In God We Trust" on his ass.
The reason why I suggested it has to do with Jonathon Swifts technique of proposing cannibalism to the British Government to assuage the Irish Potato Famine, which he did in the 19th Century, " A Modest Proposal". My momtive for suggesting this had nothing to do with religion. It has everything to do with the fact that educators have a duty to the community to leave politics out of the school and to educate children with the technique inquiry, rather than cloning them philosophically iny\to his or her own liberal wing nut cosmology. The question of whether " In God We Trust" is an approprite slogan on our money is an not an appropriate question, because in fact it appears on all our nickels. The deleting of it is a political statement which has no place in a public school.
This is the reason that many parents are homeschooling their children, or sending them to private schools which produce thinking individuals which thereby ensures the continuation of a secure democratic republic, rather than an Utopian Libaral totalitarian state, where the people can only mumble and parrot liberal platitudes instaed of thinking for themselves.
What type of school did you attend? Easy to guess. You fall on the side of the issue which promotes the use of propanganda misnamed as " education" for liberal/socialist totalitarian purposes
A TROLL you are!
Mind your manners or you are out of here.Do not quote me out of context again or you will have to go back to the MOVEON.org site and report your defeat.
...and then call it 1950's PC claptrap.
Posts 21 and 22 show that you were completely wrong about the origin of "In God We Trust" on US Currency. Which, if you recall the article about the nickel and the yearbook, was the point of the thread.
Let's go through the "troll checklist" on this:
1. Posting assertions directly contradictory to the purposes and spirit of Free Republic. (+) Check.
2. Attempted thread hijacking. Check.
3. Selective misquotation of your own posts, where the original information is trivially available to refute you. Check.
4. Ignoring direct yes-or-no questions from others about your opinions (see post 88 this thread). Check.
5. For the win...it is neither a crevo thread nor an immigration thread. Check.
Yup. Troll.
Ummm... are you aware that the dollar shown in post 66 is simply a modification of the one shown in post 57?
Yes, that's why I pointed it out. Post 57 showed the word "GOD" in place of the word "One" in a genuine one-dollar bill, and rearrange the words "In" and "We Trust" to be above and below it. So that the GOD assumes center stage on the currency. If you were really trying to make the point about the DID (deity identification)TM on the one dollar bill, you'd have photoshopped the orignal dollar bill and its small font "In God We Trust". Since you chose the image of the caricature of the Atheist's-View Dollar, my comment stands. As the late WW II Army Cartoonist Bill Mauldin said, "I build a shoe. If someone else wants to put it on and loudly announce that it fits, that's their business."
Wow. That's truly inspired rhetoric.
It beats the hell out of yours. And it was humorous. See post 87.
Cheers! (+) See here for a statement by Jim Robinson. Note especially the parts about "pro-God", "God-given", and "traditional way of life". Belief in God and public proclamation of belief in God, even by major political figures in their official capacity, are traditional.
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