The Values We All Stand For
To my (likely confused) subscribers: this video is my submission to The Reason Project Video Contest: www.reasonproject.org A special thanks to snap2objects for providing some of the Creative Commons 3.0 licensed vectors for the figures in this video. All other borrowed images used in this video are copyright-free through Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons and so I would like to thank those organizations as well. -- NOTE 1: "In God We Trust" first started to appear on a few US coins during the Civil War. However, the motives for these inclusions were entirely different in nature. At that time, there were, to my knowledge, no active atheists in American culture. The inclusion of "In God We Trust" on US coins was gradual and met with resistance by prominent American theists, such as Theodore Roosevelt, as being sacrilegious. By comparison, the 1957 changes were drastic, sweeping, and specifically invoked to combat the atheism of the Soviet Union. Before, some coins were allowed to not have the phrase and no paper bills had it; after, ALL American money, both coin and paper were REQUIRED to contain the slogan. Further, the changes in the pledge and the motto happened almost simultaneously with this change. These changes were overtly anti-atheist in nature: "In these days when imperialistic and materialistic Communism seeks to attack and destroy freedom, it is proper" to "remind all of us of this self-evident truth" that "as long as this country trusts in God, it will prevail <b>...</b>
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