Philly Mint Strikes A Blow For Secular Humanism

Back in the middle of last month, the U.S. Mint began its plan to release dollar coins with pictures of the presidents on them, in an attempts to get us to think about using a dollar coin for a week before we go back to using foldin’ money.

Well, the mint in Philadelphia apparently made a mistake, thereby attracting our attention again. (I had even forgotten there were new dollar coins!) You see, some of the new dollars went out without the inscription “In God We Trust” on the side, making them evil, godless dollars that will probably never meet Barbaro in heaven. Oh, and it’s also missing “E Pluribus Unum P 2007.”

Naturally, all the coins that have been found so far were struck in the Philadelphia Mint. About 150 million of the new dollars — with Washington on the front — have been made in Philadelphia, and maybe about 50,000 don’t have the inscription on the side. They’re selling for about $40-50 on eBay.

The lack of inscriptions may upset some people, like one Bonnie Alba, writing on some blog/online publication called “The Conservative Voice”:

Is there a possible correlation between this coin and the ongoing actions in all areas of society and our court system to delete any public reference to God, to Christianity, and the transition of our nation to total materialsim with a State religion of Humanism? Without God? Without reliance on God’s providence?

We now have a coin which has pushed God and our once heartfelt unity to the edge. Does it have anything to do with the constant blatant attack on history and our Christian heritage, revised and disseminated in government schools? Voiding the mention of God in education has affected and influenced millions of children and produced adults with no inkling how they were indoctrinated with a reinterpretation of America’s history.

Yeesh. Nobody tell her about these new coins without the words on them. Her head might explode.

A striking omission on a bunch of new dollar coins [Inquirer]
Feb. 15: Mint Hopes New Dollar Coins Will Capture Americans’ Interest For Whole Week This Time