Consider:
An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck with edge inscriptions, including “In God We Trust,” and made it past inspectors and into circulation, the U.S. Mint said Wednesday.
That should be a news story, right? It is, except I changed one word and removed another. Here’s the original text:
An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including “In God We Trust,” and made it past inspectors and into circulation, the U.S. Mint said Wednesday.
There is no justifiable reason for coins printed by the United States government to include the phrase “In God We Trust”. Leaving it out would show respect for the Constitution. America would not cease to believe in God, nor would we perish. We’d also lose a bright symbol of legislative activism.
Via Fark.