We don’t trust in god, or Hobby Lobby

[trotsky]

http://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/18729-we-don%E2%80%99t-trust-in-god-or-hobby-lobby-how-accurate-was-hobby-lobby%E2%80%99s-july-4th-ad

The Christian trinket-purveyor Hobby Lobby places religious holiday ads in national newspapers reaching in some cases more than 47 million readers. Hobby Lobby’s July 4, 2013 ad features quotes from the founders scattered around huge font screaming, “In God We Trust.” The quotes are meant to give the false impression that the U.S. is a Christian nation and that our nation “trusts in God.” But, just like Hobby Lobby’s god, the quotes aren’t very trustworthy. They are wildly inaccurate in some cases.

The misrepresentations range from the mild, such as capitalizing “His” to refer to a Christian god when Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson actually wrote “his” to refer to a deistic god, to the outrageous, such as omitting entire sentences without notifying the reader, combining quotes from multiple sources into one quote, omitting thousands of words with an ellipsis, and completely mischaracterizing quotes, speakers and Supreme Court cases.

FFRF has launched an amazing, interactive webpage with full breakdown of the ad. On the page, users can see a side-by-side comparison of Hobby Lobby’s quote and the original quote, read notes on history and context of the quote, and view original source documents.

Here is the FFRF's interactive page - a great resource!
http://ffrf.org/hlr/HobbyLobby.html

[cilla4progress]

1. I saw the July 4 ad!

In our local newspaper. Hobby Lobby is new to our town, so it really got my attention.

Wingnuts.

[progressoid]

2. Ugh. Hobby Lobby is still doing that?

I saw one of those ads a couple years ago. What a waste of paper and ink.