Right. Wasn’t that "in god we trust" bullshit forced onto us in the 1950s?
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It was, along with “one nation under God.”
I love how they went mask-off and divided “one nation indivisible“ with “under god”
If you pay really close attention in Christmas Vacation the woman who says the pledge doesn’t say “under god” because she didn’t learn it that way.
A lot of nationalistic bullshit got forced on us by knee-jerk reactionaries. We dropped the Bellamy salute thankfully, and I think you can understand why it got replaced in 1942…
Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said, "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag'
Some coinage started having it in the mid 1800s for similar political reasons, not against communists but against the heathens (which started as the Union against the Confederates, but then could be expanded to whomever was "against the nation". Some proponents wanted it even more religious.
Apparently "fugio" translates to "I flee." I'd never heard that portion:
https://goong.com/latin/fugio_meaning/
From the Wikipedia article: "Latin: I flee/fly, referring to time flying by"
Yeah, in this case mind your business means "keep your nose to the grindstone" because time is flying by. It was when mind your business was a literal phrase and didn't get the connotations of "don't mind mine."
Actually the first US penny if the wikipedia article is to be believed.
Is that supposed to be the sun god?
The Teletubbies scriptures have foretold his coming
Heh. I'm entirely serious though. The sun god is easily one of the most important Pagan gods. Constantine, who founded the Catholic church, believed that Christ was the sun god come to Earth. It would not at all be out of place if that's literally what it's supposed to represent.
Sorry for the shitpost then.
More seriously, probably a representation of the masonic supreme being, I would guess.
the masonic supreme being
Also the sun god, or 'logos' as I've heard it, referring once again to Christ.
And no need to apologize for a funny joke!
Looks more to me like the morning star.
...also Christ, according to those who believe in him.
A star? That's Jesus.
A lamb? Also Jesus.
A lily? Still Jesus.
A pelican? Believe it or not, Jesus.
I mean, if you actually studied human history you might gain an appreciation for just how important the sun god has been in the development of society.
The morning star as jesus? That makes the whole mythology very interesting.
The morning star is more of a title. The angel Lucifer was the morning star, but Christ claimed (or will claim) the title as his own in the sense that he preceds the return of God's light. There is a reoccurring motif, especially in Revelation that Jesus exists to put right what Satan put wrong.
Well, that's according to the lucifarians that I've talked with. They seem to follow more of the gnostic interpretation of Christ than the Catholic one.