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Stamp out “God” from US coins

Statement of Intent:

The author intends only such minimal action as will leave U.S. coins and bank notes entirely fit for re-issue. That is to say, their continued re-issue (circulation as legal tender) is inherent to the intent of said alteration.
The author neither intends nor perpetrates any fraud. That is to say, neither the weight nor the denomination, nor any marking whatsoever significant to a coin’s valuation does he alter in the slightest.
The author strives ardently to effect only such alteration as is legal under his rightful exercise of Free Speech as guaranteed in the Constitution.
The author encourages all others that they likewise must hold themselves most severely to this same exact intent.

Explanation for the above:

Item one clarifies the author’s action as wholly legal and not that prohibited under U.S. Code, Title 18, Sec. 333 of the United States Code as occurring with the intent to render it unfit for reissue.
Item two clarifies the author’s action as wholly legal and not that prohibited under U.S. Code, Title 18, Sec. 331 of the United States Code as when done fraudulently.
Item three clarifies the issue further within a more exacting context.
Item four disassociates the author from any others who’s intent may go beyond his own fully legal and Constitutionally guaranteed position.

How you too can stamp out “God” from U.S. coins:

Insure your own intent is lawful under the U.S. Code, Title 18, Sec. 333.
Apply the stamp to coins carefully so as to in no way diminish the coin’s fitness for reissue nor to alter its markings for identification and valutation.
Lay the coin atop a smooth, very hard surface so that the coin shall not be cupped when it is struck.
- Best is when the word "God" may still be read — but with the improvement of a super-imposed, international circle-and-slash sign to unmistakably negate the offending word’s meaning.
Examine the coin to evaluate your technique.
- Your clear objective must be that the coin fully retain its fitness for reissue.
- You want for it to circulate as long and as widely as possible.
- Derive satisfaction that your stamped-out coin will outlast red-ink strike-throughs on paper bills a hundred times over.
- Think of how many times you have held a coin that was older than you?
Repeat as above ad infinitum. Five minutes effort is all that's required for a ten-dollar roll of quarters.

Hand Stamp Facts

My original hardened hand stamp cost me $96 due to having to pay for tooling to be engraved.
An initial bulk order of 20 sold out quickly at $20 apiece.
An alternate vendor then had to be found, but sales still remain on-going.
My current price is $10 sent by mail, said bill displaying the motto obliterated in ink.
All sales are confidential, no records whatever are kept.
Should you wish to join the campaign, double-click the coin photo at top-of-page.

How to Most Plentifully Distribute Stamped Coins:

Obtain $10 rolls of quarters from the bank. Open and repack the roll after stamping every coin.
At sales counters, pay for $10-plus purchase with an entire role together with other bills.
The coin-return on vending machines gives back different quarters.
Ditto for bill-changing machines at you-do-it car washes.
Should you ever tire of the hobby, sell the stamp at a discount to some fresh and eager recruit. These should not be hard to find...

Motivations of the author:

I am Buddhist not an atheist. To me therefor, this slogan goes beyond merely being incorrect. The slogan is morally at odds with my own faith.
The so-called national motto is in no way pan-religious, nor omni-religious nor in the least non-secular. Rather it strictly formulates a devotional prayer in the Middle Eastern tradition of Abrahamic Monotheism. Thus it stands in absolute contrast to the Buddha’s teaching.
In bearing this slogan, all U.S. monies therefor equate to proseletizing endorsements of Abrahamic Monotheism. And they being the only legal tender in these United States, I am therefor required to hand out monotheist prayers with every transaction I make. Why should I not object to this?
So I asked myself: what would a Jew, a Christian or a Moslem do in my stead? What should be the result were circumstances reversed? If instead of "In God We Trust" what would they consider to be a moral and civic obligation were all the monies to be embossed with "Om Tara" or "Om Mani Padme Hum"? I know very well what they’d do... For instance:
- They’d do again what the Isrealites did wherever they found an emblem of the kindly goddess Ashera!
- They’d do again what the Christians did to the Library of Alexandria and to every Pagan emblem in Europe!
- They’d do again what the Moslems did to all the ground-level, base-relief carvings of ancient Egypt and to the historic Buddhist rock carvings in Afghanistan!
- They’d work to damage and even destroy them. Of course!
Why should not the tables be turned, just so long as no living being comes to harm and no actual laws are broken? Why not indeed? So after due consideration I came to accept it as a moral obligation.
Further, it is even a patriotic duty. Laws have been enacted by Congress which establish Abrahamic Monotheism as a mandated religious practice. All who spend or handle money are required to participate. This is Constitutionally wrong. A patriotic counter statement is in order and long overdue. Just such a counter statement is what I make here.
It is my Constitutionally protected free speech which I exercise here. Further it is a patriotic and moral responsibility.
This action, by its effect, is no breach of Buddhist ethics since it brings no harm whatever to living beings.
Nor is this action according to the clear context in which it is written a breach of the United States Code.

Links

Fundie Myth: Quotations from the Founding Fathers giving the lie to their Christian Democracy propaganda.
History of God-Motto: U.S. Treasury records.
Free Anti-Fundie Graphic: Comical version of the Fundie-Christian fish emblem with swallowed hook, line and sinker.

In closing — Let me pose a question to the monotheists: If your god is so almighty, why then nowadays does he require your puny efforts in his defense? Why nowadays are there no disasters of Biblical proportion? Why can your god no longer lift a finger on his own? Whither went his awesome might and terrible power?

I’ll answer my own question... It is because your god was mortal, just as all gods are mortal. That is why. Your god has long since passed away and taken rebirth in another form. Personally, I suspect that your god is now working off many eons of negative karma in a hell realm for the outright genocides, the thousand-fold wholesale murders, and mass public infanticides which your Old Testament (the Books of Numbers, 1st & 2nd Kings, Nahum, etc.) attributes to him — unless, of course, all of it was nothing more than a myth to begin with.