{"id":34341,"date":"2012-09-01T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dave_niose-marco_rubios_recent_address_shows_why_in_god_we_trust_must_go\/"},"modified":"2012-09-01T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T19:22:07","slug":"dave_niose-marco_rubios_recent_address_shows_why_in_god_we_trust_must_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34341","title":{"rendered":"(Psychology Today) Dave Niose&#8211;Marco  Rubio&#39;s recent Address  Shows Why &#39;In God We Trust&#39; Must Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the national spotlight Thursday night introducing Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee for president, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) showed all of America why the country\u2019s national motto \u201d\u201c In God We Trust \u201d\u201c must be abandoned. Exhibiting stunning insensitivity to the millions of Americans who do not profess a belief in any deities, Rubio declared:  \u201cOur national motto is In God we Trust, reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Rubio was brazenly shouting out what many proponents of the religious motto have pubicly denied: the religious wording of the motto validates the idea that only believers are first-class citizens. Nonbelievers, while tolerated by the true believers (sometimes begrudgingly), clearly hold a second-class status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/our-humanity-naturally\/201208\/rubio-shows-why-in-god-we-trust-must-go\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the national spotlight Thursday night introducing Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee for president, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) showed all of America why the country\u2019s national motto \u201d\u201c In God We Trust \u201d\u201c must be abandoned. Exhibiting stunning insensitivity<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34341\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,42,425,133,155,151,108,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-history","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}