The atheist Michael Newdow says he’ll sue to have “In God We Trust” removed from the nation’s money. AP reports:

Michael Newdow said Sunday that he planned to file a federal lawsuit this week asking for the removal of the national motto, “In God We Trust,” from U.S. coins and dollar bills. He claims it’s an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and “excludes people who don’t believe in God.”

You know, maybe it’s just me, but I’m sick and tired of the rights of the majority being trampled by non-existent rights created for the minority by an activist court! Some things in life will always be unfair, no matter what. So what you try and do is to be unfair to as few people as possible. Now it’s time for Christians to stand up and set this country back on the course it was once on. We are a Christian nation, period. I don’t care if you disagree, it’s a fact. I don’t care if you don’t like it — deal with it!

And before any trolls start sniping about my “un-Christian” attitude, I’d refer you to the story in the Bible where Jesus cleansed the temple. I’m ready to take a whip and scar a few hides myself, right now.

We could use the example of the good citizens of Hillsborough County, Florida, who recently tanned the hide of their collective school board after the board tried to remove all religious holidays from their schools’ calendars. They got that ban overturned by simple public outrage. CNSNews.com has the story if you’re interested, and Bill O’Reilly even featured it on his opening Talking Points Memo one night last week.

In my video post “Putting Atheism In Its Place” on October 30, 2005, I quoted extensively from the March 24, 2005 issue of The Federalist Patriot. That bears repeating here:

In challenging activist-atheists who wish to raze all religious symbols from public life (erroneously citing the First Amendment and Thomas Jefferson’s “Wall of Separation”), we have often asked, “If you truly believe in atheism, why does any religious symbol, which you take as meaningless, matter at all?” As for the courts that take these cases seriously, we ask the following: On what constitutional basis do atheists have standing to sue? Are atheists granted standing under the view that atheism is a religious faith constitutionally guaranteed free-exercise rights? If so, then what “free exercise” of atheism is hampered by permitting those holding other faiths to practice their beliefs freely in public observances? What acts are required of atheists to remain atheists in good standing, which are restrained by the presence of others engaging in acts consonant with their own religions? Are atheists so weak-minded that the mere propinquity of those of other beliefs causes them to lose their faith?

However, if atheists have standing because atheism is properly understood as a religion, then why is their demand that it be the only officially permissible public practice not itself a constitutionally banned establishment of atheism as the government’s official religion? Either godlessness is or isn’t a religious faith. To our way of thinking, either atheists cannot legitimately sue on religious liberty grounds, or atheism itself must be as constrained as other faiths. Alas, endless recourse to the courts surely seems to be characteristic of godlessness!

StoptheACLU.com has more in their article Newdow Sueing To Remove “In God We Trust” From Money.

TD