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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is NOT ok.  Not because of the sign itself - a few years back, that would have just been an odd place to reference a dollar bill.  In the current circumstances it is a dog whistle to Christian nationalism and everything that entails.

I find it extremely offensive.  I would avoid that school.  I would definitely complain.[/quote]

Why is this not allowed when FCPS officially celebrates Diwali, Eid, etc making all students take the day off or learn nothing? That's ok but a reference to God on a paper is Christian nationalism?[/quote]

Do we have politicians forcing schools to put up Muslim, Hindu, Jewish signs? 
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Muslims and Jews are both Abrahamic religions though.  It's my understanding that there is a Supreme God in Hinduisml, though there a multitude of Gods as well.

Again, you can read "In God we trust" however you want, and adherents to different traditions may read their own God(s) into it. [/quote]

No.  We don't.  I'm Jewish and I don't for one moment believe there is any god referenced in that sign other than the Christian god. After all, it was Christians who lobbied for the motto and for pasting it everywhere, and they did so as an absolute and direct reference to Christianity - their version of it, anyway.  To see it any other way is to deny the obvious.[/quote]

Please keep being like this in public. Exactly like this. It really helps to open people's eyes. [/quote]

I think this is called gaslighting.  Where  you pretend someone is being hysterical and overreacting, but actually they have accurately perceived things.  I remember the push to put those signs up.  It was the direct result of a huge campaign from the far right, and in particular there was one organized group - a Christian nationalist group - that was behind it.  It was intended as Christian.  It was never intended to be inclusive, and those people would have balked at the suggestion that anyone should interpret it otherwise.  [/quote]

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