New Can Design?
Today while looking at facebook I read a friends status it said this:
“Don’t buy the new Pepsi can coming out with pics of the Empire State building and the Pledge of Allegiance on them. Pepsi left out 2 little words in the pledge “Under God.” Pepsi said they didn’t want to offend anyone. So if we don’t buy them, they won’t be offended when they don’t receive our money with the words “In God We Trust”on it. STOP DRINKING ALL PEPSI PRODUCTS… THAT WILL FIX THEM!! How fast can you repost”
My response? Good for Pepsi, they’re actually trying to enforce this separation of church and state we’re supposed to have. I wanted to respond with this big history filled thing, but determined that it would be a bad idea. So I just decided to post the whole thing here. It’s safer.
“I don’t buy pepsi to begin with, I don’t like how it tastes.
There’s also the issue that there’s supposed to be this separation of church and state.
but that doesn’t work so well when all money says “In God We Trust”, which was first required on all US currency in the late 1950′s, it was already there, but never required.
And the pledge of allegiance says “Under God” which, mind you, was never there to begin with, it was added two years prior to the bill requiring “In God We Trust” on all currency.
Yes, the Declaration of Independence does say “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them” but, Thomas Jefferson also had his own version of the Bible (which was a little hinky.) There was also a lot less religious diversity, most people were a form of Christianity. (deists included, they believe in A God) and there was a number of Jewish groups, the largest being in South Carolina.
The acceptance and respect Christians have is seriously lacking. It’s posts like those, that reinforce an Atheist’s beliefs.”
The last part references a quote by Brennan Manning. A quote I tend to bring up a lot, because I believe the message he sends in that quote is true. So this time, I’ll give it to you.
The quote reads as so:
“The single greatest cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable”
~Brennan Manning – Author, Friar, Priest, Contemplative and Speaker
It’s the fact that he’s a Friar and Priest that this quote holds so much power really. If it were from just any old author contemplative and speaker, it wouldn’t mean nearly as much. But, this man is a religious man.
You may have heard this quote before, you can find it in the beginning of a song by DC Talk. I personally, have not heard the song, but I know plenty of people who have, they mention it every time I mention the quote.
Religious discrimination, it’s happening in our own backyards, and we don’t even realize it.
So if you like Pepsi, go buy it anyway, don’t stop buying it just because their recent can design is missing two “important words” that were never there to begin with, that’s dumb.
Posted on August 8, 2011, in Soapbox and tagged descrimination, history, Pepsi, religion. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
I have a question. To which God are they referring? The word God is a generic term and without adjetives it is left up to the reader or listener to decide which god is trusted. There are a mutitude of gods from which to choose. Hitler was a god, there are those that believe the sun, moon and stars are gods, there is the god of abraham, and some even believe Satan to be a god. Would you like this republic to be under Hitler or Satan. The person reading ” IN GOD We Trust” will choose the god or gods in which they believe. Nature has never shown me it’s god. Also we are endowed by our creator the inalienable rights. Creator is another generic term left to the individual to identify thus the creator could be a random event to some. Assuming the government means the christian god is conjecture. Why would the christian God want his name on the instrument that is the root of all evil? Just a few thoughts .