Re:Get Helvetica Off Our Money
by techiferous on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @11:54PM
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It's about as appropriate as "In Zeus We Trust". It's not something that is representative of the consensus of the American people.
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They say statistics can be used to prove anything, so I'm not expecting this to change your mind, but poll after poll shows that the majority of people in the USA are Christians.
Re:Get Helvetica Off Our Money
by techiferous on Thursday April 22, 2010 @08:54AM
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But there are two things: (1) relevance and (2) I'm guessing the consensus among Americans is that we wouldn't want merely a majority-rule democracy, but a democracy that also respects the rights of minorities.
Using the reasoning of popularity, we could put "Land of the Whites" on our money.