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From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Political Atheists?
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Date: 2 Apr 93 19:05:57 GMT
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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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