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Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!olivea!sgigate!sgiblab!adagio.panasonic.com!nntp-server.caltech.edu!keith From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.atheism Subject: Re: Political Atheists? Message-ID: <1pi2qlINNoeh@gap.caltech.edu> Date: 2 Apr 93 19:05:57 GMT References: <1p39fgINN8f8@gap.caltech.edu> <1p8s7dINNfg1@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Mar30.205434.26115@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1pcol6INNq2s@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Mar31.195807.5467@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes: >>The motto originated in the Star-Spangled Banner. Tell me that this has >>something to do with atheists. >The motto _on_coins_ originated as a McCarthyite smear which equated atheism >with Communism and called both unamerican. No it didn't. The motto has been on various coins since the Civil War. It was just required to be on *all* currency in the 50's. keith
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