I turned on my engraver, and I scratched a bit of metal Andrepeated this procedure many times Now I'm looking at a littlepile of atheistic money- Godless nickels, godless quarters,godless dimes If you want a godless penny, I've got some, but nottoo many And I don't have any dollar coins so far Now you mightwell find it funny, scratching "God" off all my money But youknow? I like them better as they are.

So I saw the "atheists are hypocrites if they spend money, cosit says 'In God We Trust' on it" argument one too many times. AndI've decided that from now on, whenever I see that argument made,I'm going to de-god another big batch of coins. I already have amarker I use on bills, but paper money only stays in circulationfor maybe a couple of years, whereas coins stick around fordecades. And yes, I just got done de-godding a big batch thismorning, while waiting for a battery to charge so I could do mynext task.

I've also decided that any and all donations to this site(there's a donate button down there on the right) will beconverted to coins and de-godded. Then comes the fun part-gettingthem into circulation. Coins tend to stick around in mason jarsor cracked mugs until you get fed up and decide to roll them upand bring them to the bank-or worse, to a coin-star machine (whywould anyone use those?). Godless money, on the other hand, I amvery motivated to get into circulation. So I'll be an atheistbenefactor, topping off parking meters, pre-loading washingmachines at the local laundromats (hey, people who uselaundromats are generally people who could use some help-Iremember those days well), throwing a handful of quarters intothe buskers' guitar cases, loading up the UNICEF boxes athalloween... and, yes, spending them myself-I'm only a part-timealtruist; I do need to eat. But now, each quarter (or, if any ofyou are extremely generous, I'll have the chance to wear out myengraver on some dollar coins!) spent will have twopurposes-helping a particular individual, and spreading godlessmoney.

Does this seem a tad obsessive? Not at all; it is the tiniestfraction of the effort used to put God on all that money in thefirst place. You want obsessive, try looking at the members ofCongress who continue to affirm a motto that is in no danger ofever being recognized as the violation of the first amendmentthat it is. If this is simply ceremonial deism, then I am doingprecisely nothing to these coins.

To read the complete articles, see:
Ceremonial De-Deism(freethoughtblogs.com/cuttlefish/2012/09/27/ceremonial-de-deism/)
Atheists Sue U.S. Government to Take 'In God We Trust' Off OurMoney(www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/03/12/atheists-sue-u-s-government-to-take-in-god-we-trust-off-our-money/)