

{"id":9088,"date":"2013-12-11T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2013-12-11T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:00:23","slug":"in-god-we-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9088","title":{"rendered":"In God We Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are talk show hosts I don&#8217;t like but there are a handful I despise.<\/p>\n<p>Since Andrea Tantaros quit at TRN, she has been replaced by Sam Sorbo and frequently her weekend cohost incredibly obnoxiuos Marius Forte.<\/p>\n<p>Both are wanting to relive the McCarthy era where everyone who doesn&#8217;t hold their religious beliefs must be a Communist.  At the height of the Red Scare, the politicians ordered the Federal Reserve to add &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; to the money, as if somehow we wouldn&#8217;t believe God exists if not for the government, or conversely that it requires God to fool you into thinking that piece of paper has value.<\/p>\n<p>So today, Mario made the brilliant assertion that if atheists don&#8217;t believe in God, they should stop using money.   I&#8217;m not an atheist, but 99% of the money I spend doesn&#8217;t say &#8220;In God we trust&#8221;, it says &#8220;Visa&#8221; or &#8220;MasterCard&#8221; or &#8220;online bill payment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The more &#8220;Conservatives&#8221; want to base their principles on religion rather than rational thought and logic, the less I am willing to go along with their vision of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are talk show hosts I don&#8217;t like but there are a handful I despise. Since Andrea Tantaros quit at TRN, she has been replaced by Sam Sorbo and frequently her weekend cohost incredibly obnoxiuos Marius Forte. Both are wanting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-individual-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9090,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions\/9090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}