I caught an episode of 30 Days tonight that was pretty entertaining. In the now famous Morgan Spurlock style (dump corrosive ingredients together in a bowl and run like hell), a mousy atheist woman from Kansas was sent to live for a month in the Texas home of a dumbfounded Christian fundamentalist guy and his family. Overall, it was an unimpressive episode of 30 Days for the most part, but there was one particular scene that I found interesting, and thought provoking to boot.
The atheist woman was being introduced to non-denominational contemporary Christian worship by her "host family" with regularity and vigor. She felt as if they didn't understand atheism as she presented it, so she took them to a meeting of local atheists at a coffee shop. The Christian was obviously confused about the concept of people that literally don't believe in the supernatural, so he was lost from the word "Go." One of the atheist men was explaining why they feel that the U.S. Constitution has basically been shit upon with the introduction of religious symbolism within government institutions. He mentioned money, in particular.

"How would you like it," the atheist asked the vacant looking Christian man "if the Government started printing money that was embossed with the phrase There is no God? Wouldn't you feel as if the Government was overstepping its boundaries by making you carry around something in your pocket that was MY belief and not YOURS?"

A light came on in my head.

The Christian man replied "In God We Trust is on our money. If you don't like it, move someplace else."

What a horrible attitude. The question was repeated at least 7 times, the man kept replying with the same "git the hell outta here if you don't like it" response. Suddenly I realized what an absurd argument that our fine Government sparked off in 1956 when they chose this unifying phrase to rally U.S. citizens against the Communists during the cold war (at the time, Soviet law doctrine recognized only atheism).

What a horrible, horrible idea. SOOOOOO, I've come up with a new one. Since not all Americans believe in a supreme creator (about 5% of Americans don't), perhaps we can unify behind something we all believe in? Not a single American citizen can or will deny the existence of pornography. Hell, we as a society spent over $4 BILLION dollars on porn movies last year alone. This doesn't include internet pornography, strip clubs or La Femme tickets (which, by the way, is a SMOKIN cabaret show...don't let anybody tell you it's not).